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Not Just West Virginia or Idaho: Supreme Court Protects Women’s Sports in Several States

As part of the cases handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court this term, the six conservative justices delivered a win for women’s sports last week. While the cases came out of West Virginia and Idaho, the high court’s majority sent a message that reverberated in 25 states, including Ohio.

In the combined cases of Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the majority opinion, answered “yes” when it comes to the question of whether schools may determine eligibility for women’s and girls’ sports “based on biological sex.”

Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurrence, wrote that a “man does not have a legal right to compete against women just because he believes he is a woman,” noting that “men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women and girls, even if they believe that they are.”

Ohio is among the states that passed legislation recently to protect women and girls from having to compete against boys and men on their sports teams. In 2024, H.B. 68 went into........

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