The Supreme Court said Thursday that he would hear appeals from two states that seek to defend the laws that exclude transgender athletes from participation in sports teams of girls and women.
The cases of West Virginia and Idaho, which will be programmed to argue during the next mandate of the court, will decide whether the Law of Constitution and Civil Rights prohibits prohibitions based on the sex of an athlete assigned to birth.
The lower courts in each case were put on the side of the athletes to find the state laws violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment or the title IX of the Civil Rights Law.
A vision of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, July 19, 2024.
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The decision to listen to the cases follows a decision of the conservative majority of the Supreme Court last month that defends state prohibitions on medical care affirmed by gender for transgender minors.
The president of the Court, John Roberts, said that the laws did not violate the 14th amendment or discriminated on the basis of sex, despite the fact that the medical treatments are widely available for the minors.
The result of the case, us v. Skrmetti, was one of the most important LGBTQ decisions that come from the Superior Court of the Nation and marked the first time the judges intervened in a state law Anti-Trans.
Trans-Attacles will be argued in autumn and will be decided in 2026.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that the cases involved are only Western Virginia and Idaho, no Arizona.
