Quick Glance: Court Overturns West Virginia Ban on Transgender in Sports
- A federal appeals court has overturned a ban on transgender individuals participating in sports in West Virginia, citing a violation of Title IX.
- The court ruled that the law cannot lawfully be applied to a 13-year-old girl who has identified as female since the third grade.
- The decision favored the American Civil Liberties Union, its West Virginia chapter, and the LGBTQ advocacy group Lambda Legal, who filed a lawsuit in 2021.
- West Virginia is just one of 24 states with legislation preventing transgender women and girls from competing in specific women's or girls' sports events.
Quick Glance: The Supreme Court will not enforce a West Virginia law prohibiting transgender athletes from participating on girls' sports teams.
- According to the ACLU, 19 states have passed laws similar to West Virginia's in the last three years.
- However, no appeals court has yet to rule on the issue.
- Becky and her mother were represented by the ACLU, Lambda Legal, and private lawyers who appealed the ruling and won a preliminary order from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that prevents the law from being enforced while the appellate court considers her case.
- The appeals court's temporary order prompted West Virginia's attorney general to petition the Supreme Court for emergency relief.
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Quick Glance: A West Virginia man has been sentenced for making threats against Fauci and other officials.
- Prosecutors said he admitted to making threats against Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Francis Collins, the former director of the NIH, Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services, a public health official from Massachusetts, and a religious leader.
- "Threats like these will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."