The Supreme Court on June 30 upheld West Virginia and Idaho laws prohibiting boys in girls’ sports.
The 6–3 decision held that the laws didn’t violate Title IX, which bars sex discrimination in education.
“Title IX allows schools to provide separate women’s and men’s sports teams defined by biological sex, and West Virginia has permissibly maintained female sports for biological females consistent with Title IX,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the majority opinion.
The court’s ruling clarified that when Title IX refers to sex, it “cannot plausibly be interpreted to refer to anything other than biological sex.” It also said that state laws do not violate equal protection rules under the 14th Amendment….