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Federalist Radio Hour

Inside The Fight To Protect Women’s Sports At SCOTUS

Federalist Radio Hour

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4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Sarah Parshall Perry, vice president and legal fellow at Defending Education, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to dive into the legal, cultural, and political ramifications that could result from the Supreme Court's evaluation of states' laws protecting women's sports

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0:00.0

And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

0:22.3

I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience

0:27.6

Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.

0:30.5

As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.

0:35.4

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0:38.8

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0:41.1

and, of course, the premium version of our website as well.

0:45.8

Our guest today is Sarah Partial Perry,

0:48.9

Vice President and Legal Fellow at Defending Education.

0:53.9

Little V. Hecox and West Virginia, V.B.P.J.

1:01.1

There's a two Supreme Court cases, if you're not familiar.

1:05.1

They have major implications for women's and girls' sports

1:09.5

and whether schools must allow male athletes to compete on girls' teams.

1:15.7

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on both last week, and Sarah has a good deal of

1:23.5

expertise on this front. Thank you so much for joining us on this edition of the Federalist

1:28.6

Radio Hour. Thanks for having me, Matt. You bet. Remarkable times, these and remarkable oral

1:35.9

arguments. Let us begin here with the absolute insanity of what I like to call the Lola Camp.

1:46.1

Do you remember the Kinks song Lola?

1:50.2

The girls can be boys and boys can be girls' side.

1:54.8

It is indeed a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito grilled an attorney representing a biological male athlete in the case of Little V. Hickox

2:03.6

on Tuesday about the definitions of a woman and girl. This is from Fox News. Alito and Kathleen

2:12.6

Hartnett, who is arguing on behalf of the Idaho student in the Supreme Court case,

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