Overview
- After back-to-back arguments in Little v. Hecox (Idaho) and West Virginia v. B.P.J., a conservative majority suggested these laws likely survive Title IX and equal protection challenges.
- Chief Justice John Roberts questioned extending the 2020 Bostock reasoning to sports classifications, while Justice Brett Kavanaugh called team selection a zero-sum setting with potential harm to cisgender girls.
- Lawyers for the athletes said testosterone suppression and other treatments can remove any competitive edge, but multiple justices highlighted unresolved scientific disputes.
- The Trump administration urged the Court to read Title IX as referring to biological sex and asked for a narrow ruling, with references to NCAA and U.S. Olympic policies entering the fairness debate.
- Lindsay Hecox has asked the Court to dismiss her case as moot, the justices are expected to rule by late June or early July, and roughly 26–27 states have similar bans in place.