Male athlete in Supreme Court transgender sports case placed high in girls’ state championships: West Virginia AG

A biologically male transgender athlete, who is at the center of a Supreme Court case over West Virginia‘s law barring biological men from women’s sports, placed near the top of two events at the state’s recent high school track championship for girls, West Virginia’s attorney general said, contrary to past claims the athlete’s lawyers made about the athlete’s lackluster performances in girls’ track events.

In the pending Supreme Court case West Virginia v. B.P.J., the justices are set to rule on whether West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act, which bars biological men from competing in women’s sports, violates either the equal protection clause or Title IX. As the high court continues to pen its ruling on the case behind closed doors, West Virginia Attorney General John B. McCuskey filed a letter to the Supreme Court detailing how Becky Pepper-Jackson, the biological male who identifies as a woman at the center of