Becky Pepper-Jackson is in the middle of the outdoor track season.
to continue competing on her middle school’s girls sports teams while a lawsuit over a state ban continues.
Pepper-Jackson is in the middle of the outdoor track season. She had filed a lawsuit challenging the law, the Save Women’s Sports Act, which In a proclamation, Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a Sarasota woman to be the "real" winner of a 500-meter freestyle event held last week.that would prevent schools and colleges from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes, but would allow certain exceptions to promote fairness or reduce injuries.
West Virginia’s law on schools sports competition bars transgender athletes from female teams. Signed by Justice, the law defines male and female by looking to the student’s "reproductive biology and genetics at birth." It applies to middle and high schools, as well as colleges. Tennis great Martina Navratilova was among dozens of female athletes backing West Virginia at the Supreme Court, along with Republican attorneys general in 21 states.
Lawyers for the girl, known in the lawsuit by the initials B.P.J., appealed. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1, without issuing any opinion, to put the law on hold while it considers the case.
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