States May Exclude Trans Kids from Sports: Supreme Court
Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice. Here’s the past week’s latest news.
SCOTUS narrowly preserves birthright citizenship
The Supreme Court handed down its final decisions of the term last week, including two with major civil rights implications. In West Virginia v. B.P.J., the Court ruled that states banning trans people from joining sports teams based on their gender identity, rather than assigned sex at birth, does not violate the Equal Protection Clause or Title IX. In the high-profile birthright citizenship case, the Court affirmed by a narrow........
