Trans rights case before Supreme Court will test freedom of all Americans

[STEVEN ROBINSON]

Trans rights case before Supreme Court will test freedom of all Americans

 

Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. BPJ challenge the strength of the 14th Amendment for all

 

By Tatyana Tandanpolie, Staff Reporter – Salon – June 18, 2026

 

The Supreme Court has been infamous for saving its most contentious rulings for the tail end of its sessions, and the controversy placed on LGBTQ+ rights suggests the court will drop its decision in two key transgender rights cases right as this year’s Pride Month comes to a close.

 

Two cases, Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. BPJ, task the justices with determining, in different ways, the constitutionality under the 14th Amendment of state bans on school sports participation based on sex assigned at birth. The Supreme Court held oral argument for both cases in mid-January, and the justices are expected to hand down a ruling at the end of June or early July.

 

Beyond defining the future of transgender athletes’ ability to participate in public school and collegiate-level sports, the cases test the strength of the 14th Amendment, adopted in 1868, which could have far-reaching consequences on every American’s rights under the equal protection clause.

 

Little v. Hecox challenges Idaho’s 2020 “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” which barred transgender women and girls from playing on female sports teams in public schools and colleges and allowed any person to question a student athlete’s gender, subjecting her to a medical verification process. Stemming from a lawsuit filed by a trans student who had undergone hormone therapy and wanted to join Boise State University’s cross-country team, the case questions whether a state, so long as it remains consistent with the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, can require sports participation based on biological sex.

 

West Virginia v. BPJ features a similar challenge against the state’s 2021 “Save Women’s Sports Act,” which required public schools and colleges to designate sports teams based on “biological sex” and prohibits students assigned male at birth from participating on women’s teams. It hinged on the experience of a trans girl who took puberty blockers for treatment of gender dysphoria at the onset of puberty and sought to continue participating on girls’ teams, and asks the court to consider whether Title IX or the 14th Amendment bars a state from assigning students to sports teams based on their birth-assigned sexes.

 

The Supreme Court decisions in these consolidated cases will come on the heels of a suite of pivotal transgender rights cases that have made their way to the court. Last summer, the court ruled narrowly in favor of a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care in U.S. v. Skrmetti, while it allowed the Trump administration’s executive orders banning transgender people from enlisting and serving in the military, and requiring passports to display holders’ sex assigned at birth to take effect pending litigation in U.S. v. Shilling and Trump v. Orr, respectively. Given those outcomes, the odds that the court will rule in the transgender respondents’ favor aren’t high — and that should concern all Americans.

 

Full at:

 

https://www.salon.com/2026/06/18/scotus-cases-on-transgender-rights-test-every-americans-freedom/

 

 

 

[mymanmert]

The thing is

How many kids are we talking about?

And we adults don't have room in our hearts to figure something out for 1 or 2 kids?

Man.....that sucks🤔

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