West Virginia's Transgender Sports Ban Gets Bad News
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Associated Press
4th US Circuit Court of Appeals says it's a Title IX violation. A federal appeals court has overturned a West Virginia transgender sports ban, finding that the law violates Title IX, the federal civil-rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools. The ruling Tuesday from the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals blocks a West Virginia law banning transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams, reports the AP. The court said the law can't lawfully be applied to a 13-year-old girl who has been taking puberty-blocking medication and publicly identified as a girl since she was in the third grade. West Virginia is one of at least 24 states with a law on the books barring transgender women and girls from competing in certain women's or girls sports competitions.