A pair of cases could set nationwide policy on transgender athletic participation in public schools and colleges in the next U.S. Supreme Court term, settling a policy pingpong that has persisted over the course of the last three presidential administrations.
The high court last week accepted petitions from West Virginia and Idaho which could, together, answer whether laws preventing transgender athletes from participating on teams aligning with their gender identities violate Title IX and the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, and whether laws preventing transgender female athletes specifically violate the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.