The Supreme Court held oral arguments in the two transgender athlete cases in January.
Ryan Quinn | Inside Higher Ed
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws banning transgender girls and women from playing on sports teams matching their gender identity, endorsing prohibitions in more than half the states against transgender inclusion.
“Title IX allows schools to provide separate women’s and men’s sports teams defined by biological sex,” Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the majority opinion from the six Republican-appointed justices. The three liberals filed opinions concurring in part and dissenting in part.
Kavanaugh wrote that the “term ‘sex’ in Title IX” and in regulations surrounding it “cannot plausibly be interpreted to refer to anything other than biological sex.”
