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Candidates for governor react to Supreme Court ruling on transgender athletes in youth sports

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Newest development Jul 2, 2026 · 2 reportsBreaking down the constitutional questions in the transgender athletes case

A Supreme Court ruling upholding bans on transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports has put the issue back on the campaign trail in New Hampshire.

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  1. Transgender athletes still protectd in California, Supreme Court rules

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    Candidates for governor react to Supreme Court ruling on transgender athletes in youth sports

    Headline from WMUR ·

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    Breaking down the constitutional questions in the transgender athletes case

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  1. NBC Los Angeles

    Supreme Court upholds state bans on transgender athletes in girls and women's sports (opens NBC Los Angeles)

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    The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams. The ruling on a pair of separate cases from Idaho and West Virginia could carry far-reaching implications for transgender rights.

  2. Advocate

    States can ban transgender women and girls from sports, according to U.S. Supreme Court (opens Advocate)

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    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state bans on transgender girls and women competing in girls’ and women’s school sports , delivering a major victory to Republican -led states and a devastating defeat to trans students who had asked the justices to let them participate in public school life …

  3. Phl17

    Supreme Court upholds transgender athlete bans in schools (opens Phl17)

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    The Supreme Court ruled states can bar transgender girls from competing on girls and women’s school sports teams, upholding bans in Idaho and West Virginia on Tuesday in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines that is set to impact similar laws passed in more than half the country.

  4. The 19th

    Supreme Court lets states block trans athletes from women’s and girls’ sports (opens The 19th)

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    The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Idaho and West Virginia did not discriminate against two transgender athletes who had sued to be allowed to participate in sports alongside other girls and women.

  5. Legal Insurrection

    Supreme Court: Schools Can Determine Eligibility for Sports Based on Biological Sex (opens Legal Insurrection)

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    Legal Insurrection's feed description

    These male athletes had the nerve to claim the laws violated their rights under Title IX, which was passed to protect FEMALES. The post Supreme Court: Schools Can Determine Eligibility for Sports Based on Biological Sex first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion .

  6. Washington Blade

    Supreme Court upholds state laws banning trans athletes from sports teams (opens Washington Blade)

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    Justices heard oral arguments in two cases in January

  7. Townhall

  8. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    Supreme Court upholds state laws banning transgender girls and women from school athletic teams (opens Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

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    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams, in another setback for transgender people.

  9. WPRI Providence

    Supreme Court upholds state laws banning transgender girls, women from school athletic teams (opens WPRI Providence)

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    The court's conservative majority, which has repeatedly ruled against transgender Americans in the past year, ruled that state bans in Idaho and West Virginia don't violate the Constitution or the federal law known as Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education.

  10. Breitbart News

    Supreme Court Rejects Transgenderism in Sports (opens Breitbart News)

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    The Supreme Court on Tuesday totally rejected the claim the U.S. government must force young girls to accept boys into their sports team.

  11. Pennsylvania Capital-Star

    US Supreme Court upholds transgender athlete bans in Idaho, West Virginia (opens Pennsylvania Capital-Star)

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    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday kept in place state laws banning transgender athletes from participating on women’s and girls’ sports teams.

  12. Not The Bee

    SCOTUS upholds "trans" athlete bans that divide school sports by sex (opens Not The Bee)

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    The first of two expected Supreme Court rulings dropped today and it's a big win for sanity.

  13. The Western Journal

    Breaking: Supreme Court Delivers Win for Women's Sports in Landmark Transgender Athletes Ruling (opens The Western Journal)

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    The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld two state laws that barred men from competing in women’s sports. In the cases of West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox, the […]

  14. Blaze Media

    SCOTUS sides with common sense after boys try to play sports with girls (opens Blaze Media)

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    The Supreme Court has come down on the side of common sense when it comes to boys infiltrating girls' sports. In a decision in which all nine justices concurred at least in part, the court ruled that laws in West Virginia and Idaho could limit sports teams to biological sex without violating the Equ…

  15. The New Republic

    Justice Sotomayor Warns Trans Athlete Bans Aren’t Based on Any Facts (opens The New Republic)

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    The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld West Virginia and Idaho state laws banning transgender athletes from competing on teams that align with their gender, further restricting trans rights in the U.S. This is the court’s first ruling on laws regarding trans athletes, and follows last year’s decision i…

  16. Breitbart News

    Supreme Court Win: States Can Stop Transgender Athletes from Competing in Women's Sports (opens Breitbart News)

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    The Supreme Court handed a victory down to conservatives and purveyors of common sense, ruling Tuesday that states can ban biological boys who believe they are girls from competing in women's sports in publicly-funded schools.

  17. The College Fix

    ‘Massive’ victory: States can keep women’s sports female, Supreme Court rules (opens The College Fix)

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    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that states can ban male athletes identifying as female from women's sports, affirming that "sex" in Title IX refers to biological sex.

  18. Time

    Supreme Court Upholds State Bans on Transgender Athletes (opens Time)

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    In a decision that split along ideological lines, the Justices ruled that state schools can restrict women’s and girls’ sports for biological females under Title IX.

  19. The Christian Post

    Supreme Court says states can ban males from girls’ sports (opens The Christian Post)

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    The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states have the authority to prohibit males who identify as females from participating in girls’ and women's sporting competitions, saying such policies do not violate Title IX civil rights antidiscrimination law.

  20. The Daily Wire

    Supreme Court Recognizes Reality, Rightly Upholds Fairness In Women’s Sports (opens The Daily Wire)

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    Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that biology is real and biology matters. The Court’s decision recognizing that men and women have inherent differences in women’s sports cases is a resounding victory for every girl who experienced defeat because a boy was allowed to compete against her.

  21. Louisiana Illuminator

    US Supreme Court upholds transgender athlete bans (opens Louisiana Illuminator)

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    WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday kept in place state laws banning transgender athletes from participating on women’s and girls’ sports teams. The decision stems from challenges to bans in Idaho and West Virginia and marks a major setback for transgender rights across the country.

  22. Axios

    Supreme Court lets states ban trans girls from girls' sports (opens Axios)

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    The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states can ban transgender girls from girls' school sports teams, handing conservative states a historic victory in their fight to restrict trans rights. Why it matters: The decision caps a yearslong, Republican-led push through statehouses and school boards to d…

  23. HuffPost

    Sotomayor: 'Facts Do Not Matter' To Supreme Court After It Upholds Trans Athlete Ban (opens HuffPost)

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    The justices ruled 6-3 to uphold state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on female school sports teams.

  24. End Time Headlines

    US supreme court rules states can exclude trans athletes from female sports (opens End Time Headlines)

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    According to a report from The Guardian, the US Supreme Court has delivered a landmark decision upholding laws in Idaho and West Virginia that exclude transgender girls and women from competing in female sports categories.

  25. SCOTUSblog

    Court rules that states can exclude transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams (opens SCOTUSblog)

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    Updated on June 30 at 4 p.m. The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that states can exclude transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports teams. The justices ruled unanimously that laws enacted by Idaho and West Virginia do not violate federal civil rights laws, but they divided over whether the W…

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