B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education

  1. May 31, 2024

    A Potential Tipping Point For Transgender Athlete Litigation

    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.

  2. April 23, 2024

    Appellate Courts Confront Legal Fights On Transgender Care

    The national debate over transgender rights reached the U.S. Supreme Court and surfaced in three circuit courts over the last week as judges take up fiercely litigated questions on gender-affirming care and participation in sports.

  3. April 16, 2024

    4th Circ. Slams Brakes On W.Va. Transgender Sports Ban

    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.

  4. October 27, 2023

    Case For Young Trans Athlete Stresses Lack of 'Advantage'

    A West Virginia federal court's finding that a transgender middle schooler is subject to a state ban on youth playing on sports teams that don't align with the gender they were assigned at birth violates her federal rights since she has no competitive advantage, the Fourth Circuit heard Friday

  5. August 04, 2023

    4th Circ. Won't Lift Injunction On Transgender Sports Ban

    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.

  6. May 04, 2023

    Coalition Urges 4th Circ. To Back Transgender Sports Ban

    A coalition of 17 states, plus religious, political and women's athletic groups, told the Fourth Circuit this week that allowing transgender women to participate in women's sports would destroy the protections established by Title IX that have served female athletes and students.

  7. April 27, 2023

    W.Va. Tells 4th Circ. Transgender Sports Ban Is Constitutional

    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.

  8. April 04, 2023

    Trevor Project, Trans Athletes Ask 4th Circ. To Ax W.Va. Law

    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."