West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, a Republican, vowed to keep fighting to keep biological males out of girls sports after a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday to overturn a state transgender sports ban.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey vowed to keep fighting to keep biological males out of girls’ sports after a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday to overturn a state transgender sports ban because it « violated the Equal Protection Clause and Title IX. »
The 2-1 ruling Tuesday from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocks a West Virginia law, signed in 2021, that bans transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams. The court said the law cannot lawfully be applied to a middle-school aged trans girl who has been taking puberty-blocking medication and has publicly identified as a girl since the third grade.
« I am deeply disappointed in the court’s divided decision today, » Morrisey said in a statement.
