PAYTON MCNABB: Girls deserve fair competition, and the Supreme Court just agreed

The Supreme Court declined to hear challenges to laws in Idaho and West Virginia that restrict transgender girls and women from competing on sports teams matching their gender identity. Idaho's law requires athletes to compete based on sex listed at birth; West Virginia's law contains similar provisions. The decisions left the laws in place without the Court issuing an opinion on the underlying constitutional questions. Legal challenges to these and similar state laws in other jurisdictions remain pending in lower courts.

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