West Virginia on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to hear a case against a state law barring transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s school sports teams, citing the high court’s recent decision to uphold a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors.

In a statement, West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey (R) said the state is confident in the merits of its case and defense of its law, the “Save Women’s Sports Act” that former Gov. Jim Justice (R) signed in 2021.

“The law is constitutional and complies with Title IX,” McCuskey said Tuesday, referencing the federal law against sex discrimination that President Trump’s administration has said prohibits transgender girls from participating on girls’ school sports teams.

McCuskey praised the justice’s ruling in the Tennessee case, U.S. v. Skrmetti, as “a landmark decision” but said it did little to answer the specific question West Virginia first posed to the court in 2023.

“That is why we are urging the Supreme Court, through our supplemental filing, to take our case and allow the women and girls of West Virginia to begin enjoying the protections of the Save Women’s Sports Act,” he said.

The Supreme Court rejected a previous request to lift a lower court order that has since 2023 prevented West Virginia from enforcing its law against a now-high school student who throws discus and shot put for her school’s girls’ track-and-field team.

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