What's at Stake as the Supreme Court Takes Up Transgender Sports Bans

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What's at Stake as the Supreme Court Takes Up Transgender Sports Bans

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Creators (29 Sep 2025)

Over the last five years, politicians across the country have targeted transgender people and our families. They've banned our health care, censored our speech and made schools less safe for transgender students. One of the most consistent focus areas for many of these politicians has been the rights of transgender student athletes, specifically the right of transgender girls, to play with other girls.

Now, the Supreme Court will hear our challenge against a state law that categorically bans transgender students from girls' teams. Politicians hope to use the case to legitimize a broad range of discrimination against transgender people (and all LGBTQ people), excluding us not just from sports teams but from civil rights protections and pushing us further out of public life altogether.

The court is likely to rule on whether the state bans targeting transgender students violate either Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause. What we don't know — and won't know until that ruling is handed down — is whether that ruling will be narrowly tailored to the context of athletics or implicate a broad range of rights for transgender people.

Many of the political attacks on transgender people have focused on areas of the law where we already experience discrimination — access to public bathrooms or the sex designation that goes on documents such as driver's licenses and passports, for example. Depending on the precise language of the court's ruling, it could likewise implicate our fight for equality in those contexts and potentially many more, such as our access to health care and our safety while incarcerated.