The Supreme Court, Transgender Athletes, and Girls' Sports
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:35.9 | this is Potomac Watch. The Supreme Court hears two |
| 0:40.2 | cases challenging laws in Idaho and West Virginia that bar transgender athletes from participating |
| 0:46.6 | in girls and women's sports, arguments that could affect 25 other states that have similar |
| 0:51.8 | policies, as well as the High Court's jurisprudence on |
| 0:55.4 | the 14th Amendment and Title IX. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:01.8 | We're joined today by my colleagues on the journal's opinion pages, Nicole Alt and Kim Strassel. |
| 1:08.6 | 27 states have now enacted laws or policies that forbid biological males from joining |
| 1:14.6 | girls' sports teams. |
| 1:16.3 | But at least two of those states have now lost appeals in the circuit courts to transgender |
| 1:21.7 | athletes seeking exemptions from those policies. |
| 1:25.5 | One of these cases is brought by BPJ, a West Virginia cross-country and track athlete. |
| 1:32.4 | The other of the case from Idaho is brought by Lindsay Hickox, who tried out for college, track, |
| 1:38.4 | and cross-country sports at Boise State University, and then played in the club soccer team. |
| 1:45.4 | Nicole, maybe the place to start is give us a sense of how these laws are structured and how they operate. Yeah, so these |
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