US Supreme Court to take up issue of state bans on transgender women in sports

The Supreme Court has announced that it will take up multiple cases concerning state bans on transgender women in sports, which in turn could potentially lead to a landmark ruling on trans rights in the US.

Way back in October 2024, before he was elected, Donald Trump vowed to ban all transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports if he were to become the next president.

On February 2025, after his inauguration, Trump signed Executive Order 14201, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports”, in an attempt to ban transgender women athletes of all ages from competing on girls and women’s sports teams.

Since then, there has been an increasingly bitter back-and-forth between the administration and various states. For example, during a meeting of the governors at the White House on 22 February, Trump

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