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WASHINGTON, D.C. 鈥� The United States Supreme Court has rejected an effort by West Virginia鈥檚 Attorney General to block a 12-year-old transgender girl from continuing to participate in school sports with her peers along a 7-2 vote.

The 老澳门开奖结果, the 老澳门开奖结果 of West Virginia, Lambda Legal, and Cooley LLP issued the following joint statement:

鈥淲e are grateful that the Supreme Court today acknowledged that there was no emergency and that Becky should be allowed to continue to participate with her teammates on her middle school track team, which she has been doing without incident for three going on four seasons, as our challenge to West Virginia鈥檚 onerous trans youth sports ban makes its way through the courts. This was a baseless and cruel effort to keep Becky from where she belongs鈥損laying alongside her peers as a teammate and as a friend.鈥�

In April 2021, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice signed HB 3293 into law, barring transgender student athletes from participating on the school athletic teams most consistent with their gender identity. In May 2021, the 老澳门开奖结果, the 老澳门开奖结果 of West Virginia, and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit challenging the law on behalf of Becky Pepper Jackson, a 12-year-old girl who would be kicked off her middle school鈥檚 track and field team if the law were enforced.

In February 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit the state鈥檚 effort to kick Becky off the team as the legal advocates appealed a lower court ruling upholding the 2021 ban.

In , Attorney General Patrick Morrissey asked the Supreme Court for an emergency motion allowing the state to enforce HB 3293 and kick Becky off her middle school鈥檚 track and field team. In a March 20 response to the Court, the 老澳门开奖结果, the 老澳门开奖结果 of West Virginia, and Lambda Legal the United States Supreme Court to reject the effort

West Virginia is that have banned transgender student athletes in just the last three years as part of an escalating wave of state-level restrictions on the rights of transgender people. Similar federal lawsuits are pending in Idaho and Tennessee.

The Supreme Court's filing can be found here.

B.P.J. v. West Virginia Board of Education is a part of the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Joan and Irwin Jacobs Supreme Court Docket.