May 31, 2024
After heated policy debates in statehouses and academic institutions, the discourse over participation of transgender athletes in college and amateur sports has spilled into the nation's courts, with a flurry of recent suits and rulings suggesting the judiciary will have its hands full for years to come.
April 16, 2024
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday put the clamps on a West Virginia law barring transgender athletes from competing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity, finding that the restriction it placed on a trans middle schooler violated Title IX civil rights protections and may also violate the U.S. Constitution.
August 04, 2023
The Fourth Circuit said Friday it won't remove an order blocking West Virginia's ban on transgender sports in schools, in a ruling that said letting a 12-year-old transgender girl compete in her school's girls' cross-country meets this fall would not be detrimental to the public interest.
April 27, 2023
West Virginia and co-defendants in a challenge to the state's transgender school sports ban have told the Fourth Circuit only "biological sex" is protected by the U.S. Constitution and Title IX, not gender identity, and that it should uphold a lower court's decision in the state's favor.
April 04, 2023
An LGBTQ youth crisis intervention organization, along with a group of transgender women athletes, urged the Fourth Circuit to reverse a lower court's ruling that kept intact a West Virginia law requiring athletes to participate in sports based on their biological sex instead of their gender identity, saying that allowing the state law to stand will "exacerbate this long history of discrimination."