Public Advocate Fights for Women's Rights and Supreme Court Seems to Agree
Public Advocate president Eugene Delgaudio says "Public Advocate has filed several briefs in support of Title IX law protections applying to women by the will of Congress and that women are protected. It wonderful that the judges and the major news media agrees with the possible outcome is that the Court will uphold the law and protect women from these attacks."
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to uphold state laws that ban transgender athletes from taking part in girls' and women's school and college sports.
The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, heard more than three hours of oral arguments in separate cases involving two transgender students, Becky Pepper-Jackson and Lindsay Hecox, who challenged state bans in West Virginia and Idaho, respectively.
Both won lower court injunctions that allowed them to continue to compete in sports.
During arguments, questions asked by justices indicated a majority appeared reluctant to find that the laws violate either the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which requires that the law apply equally to everyone, or Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in education.
A key point raised by several justices is that a provision of Title IX enacted two years later, known as the Javits Amendment, specifically allows for sex classifications in sports based on biological sex.
PHOTO CREDIT EUGENE DELGAUDIO AT SUPREME COURT