More Briefs Are Filed In Support Of Landmark SCOTUS Cases That Challenge State Bans On Trans Girls And Women Student Athletes
National Women’s Law Center filed a friend-of-the-court brief in cases challenging Idaho and W. Virginia laws that “perpetuate stereotypes and discrimination against girls and women as athletically inferior. Shiwali Patel, senior director of education justice at NWLC, states, “Sports bans like the ones being challenged from Idaho and West Virginia fundamentally undermine Title IX, which was created, in part, to open doors for marginalized students who had historically been left out of school sports… By picking and choosing who ‘counts’ as a woman or girl–and to exclude from sports anyone who doesn’t–we risk legitimizing discrimination through the very vehicle we once used to protect our most vulnerable from it.”