The conservative-dominated court will likely uphold state laws banning transgender athletes from participating in girls' and womens' sports, in spite of an attorney's counter-argument that the number of transgender girls who have excelled in competitive sports are in fact 'few and far between.'

The battle over the legality of bans on trans athletes raises greater questions around privacy and sex discrimination in education.

If bans on trans youth athletes are upheld, more girls could face ‘invasive sex testing’ and trans people could broadly lose civil rights protections