Overview
- A conservative majority appeared ready to uphold Idaho and West Virginia laws restricting transgender girls from playing on female school teams after more than three hours of arguments.
- Several justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, probed narrower, as‑applied paths or a remand instead of a broad nationwide rule.
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh highlighted roster spots and scholarships as a zero‑sum context, while liberal justices pressed how the bans classify transgender students and affect their rights.
- The Trump administration argued that Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause permit sex‑separated sports based on sex assigned at birth and urged the Court to back the state laws.
- Lower courts had blocked the bans; Lindsay Hecox asked to drop her case as moot while Becky Pepper‑Jackson’s challenge continues, and decisions expected by early summer could shape laws in more than two dozen states and policies beyond sports.