Trans athlete's family files response in Supreme Court women's sports case

The household of transgender jock Becky Pepper-Jackson filed a effect successful a forthcoming Supreme Court conflict implicit biologic males successful women's sports.

The brief, filed by the athlete's mother, Heather Jackson, argues that West Virginia's instrumentality that prohibits transgender athletes from competing successful women's sports violates Title IX.

Title IX does not explicitly support the close of biologically antheral transgender radical to place arsenic women. The existent medication and West Virginia authorities authorities bash not construe Title IX arsenic protective of that right.

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Heather Jackson's little besides makes enactment of her child's character, and tendency to play sports with girls.

"B.P.J. is simply a teenage miss from West Virginia who is 'bright and kind.' She makes ‘straight A’s’ and loves mathematics and science. She besides loves playing with her household dogs, riding her bike, running, and spending clip with her friends," the little reads.

"B.P.J. wants to play sports for the aforesaid reasons astir kids do: to person amusive and marque friends arsenic portion of a team. Her experiences connected sports teams person fixed her the accidental to physique teamwork, confidence, and relationship portion cultivating her enactment ethic.

"She feels escaped and afloat herself erstwhile she is retired connected the field. Because participating connected boys’ teams arsenic a transgender miss would beryllium isolating, stigmatizing, and publically humiliating, and due to the fact that co-ed teams successful West Virginia are virtually non-existent, the girls’ teams are B.P.J.’s lone existent enactment for participating successful her school’s diversion program."

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The trans jock released a connection done the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) advocating for the athlete's close to vie with girls, and claimed that West Virginia's instrumentality protecting girls' sports is "part of a program to propulsion transgender radical similar maine retired of nationalist beingness entirely."

"I play for my schoolhouse for the aforesaid crushed different kids connected my way squad do–to marque friends, person fun, and situation myself done signifier and teamwork," the 15-year-old said.

"And each I’ve ever wanted was the aforesaid opportunities arsenic my peers. Instead, I’ve had my rights and my beingness debated by politicians who’ve ne'er adjacent met maine but privation to halt maine from playing sports with my friends. I cognize this lawsuit isn’t conscionable astir me, oregon adjacent conscionable astir sports.

It’s conscionable 1 portion of a program to propulsion transgender radical similar maine retired of nationalist beingness entirely. I’m arrogant to basal up alongside my ma for what I judge and who I americium and I privation different transgender kids to cognize they aren’t alone."

The West Virginia vs BPJ suit is 1 of 2 cases addressing trans inclusion successful women's and girls' sports that volition beryllium heard by the Supreme Court, apt successful aboriginal 2026.

The case, alongside the Little vs Hecox lawsuit successful Idaho, focuses connected whether states person the close to walk and enforce laws that forestall biologic males from competing successful girls' and women's sports.

The trans jock successful Little vs Hecox, Lindsay Hecox, attempted to person that lawsuit dismissed contempt being the 1 to record it backmost successful 2020.

Hecox initially filed the suit successful 2020 to artifact an Idaho authorities law, HB 500, which prohibits males from competing successful women's sports, successful bid to vie for the Boise State women's cross-country team. The Supreme Court agreed to perceive the lawsuit successful July, alongside a akin lawsuit successful West Virginia involving a trans athlete, West Virginia v. B.P.J.

Hecox past tried to person the lawsuit against Idaho and Gov. Brad Little dropped successful September.

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However, a national justice struck down Hecox's effort to dismiss, and the Supreme Court ruled that it would not determine connected whether to disregard the lawsuit astatine slightest until the defendants marque oral arguments.

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