In a recent Bloomberg Law article, Thompson Coburn Higher Education partner Tres Cleveland offered analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s consideration of two challenges to state laws restricting transgender participation in youth sports. The central question in these cases is whether states may categorically prevent transgender girls from joining girls’ sports teams based on biological sex.
A decision upholding the laws would immediately be felt in the more than two dozen states that already restrict transgender participation in youth sports. But it could also encourage the Trump administration to pursue litigation against other, largely Democrat-led states in an attempt to enforce the president’s February executive order on restricting transgender participation in women’s sports, according to Tres.
“Other than immigration enforcement, this issue is the cornerstone of what the president ran on,” he said. “What he will do with this decision and how far the administration will go in feeling vindicated is yet to be seen.”
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