At the Supreme Court, female athletes won — and so did the truth

On Tuesday, all nine Supreme Court justices acknowledged that there are inherent physical differences between men and women. Their decision in State of West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox was a needed victory for every girl who refused to stay quiet in the face of injustice — and for the truth that men cannot be women.

The court ruled 9-0 that Title IX — a federal law that ensures equal opportunities for women in education — allows states to protect female athletes through sex-specific sports. It ruled 6-3 that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment does so as well.

But Americans should ask how we became so confused that such a ruling was ever necessary in the first place.

My organization helped defend state laws protecting women’s sports, alongside Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador and West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey. The laws in question acknowledged a truth that was considered self-evident until recently: Biology creates real differences between the sexes in strength, speed, muscle mass, and physiology. No drug can erase those differences, but advocates of gender ideology have tried to erase many of the protections that arise from them, including on the athletic field and in locker rooms.

These policies that ignore biological truth hurt people, and the harms are widespread. The young male known as B.P.J., who sued West........

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