Banning biological males from women’s sports doesn’t violate the US Constitution, the court’s justices have ruled
The US Supreme Court has ruled that states can forbid biological males from competing as females in school and college sports. US President Donald Trump hailed the ruling as a “big win.”
In a unanimous verdict on Tuesday, the court’s nine justices concluded that state bans on transgender athletes competing in female sports do not violate Title IX, a 1972 law forbidding sex-based discrimination in education.
“The Constitution and Title IX do not require an overhaul of women’s and girls’ sports throughout America,” wrote conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who authored the ruling. Forcing women and girls to compete against males would “deny equal opportunity to female athletes because, as all agree, females and males have inherent physical differences.”
The court’s three liberal justices agreed that the bans do not violate Title IX, but argued that they violate the constitution’s 14th Amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the law. In her partial dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor quibbled that the ruling applied “a diminished view of equal protection” to women’s sports.
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