SCOTUS to Decide if States Can Ban Men in Women’s Sports

But Congress might make the ruling moot if it passes the Equality Act

Idaho and West Virginia passed laws banning biological men from competing in women’s sports. However, two different Courts of Appeal ruled against the states and sided with the “trans” interlopers. 

Last Thursday, July 3, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox (Idaho) this fall.

Liberty Counsel is already planning our briefs for the High Court.

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The Fourth and the Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals ruled against biological women in these cases, deciding that MEN (who pretend to be women) have a right to compete in women’s sports.

Female Athletes Begged the High Court to Intervene. . .

Women who are victims of LGBTQ “trans” men robbing them of their rightful trophies, scholarships, and other opportunities have now asked the Supreme Court to intervene.

In West Virginia v. B.P.J., former Stetson University college soccer player Lainey Armistead asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against West Virginia’s law protecting fairness in women’s sports. Known as the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” the law stipulates that athletic teams or sports designated for females shall not be open to individuals whose biological sex determined at birth is male.

The law was challenged by the mother of “Becky” Pepper-Jackson, a 13-year-old male who was prohibited from running on the girls’ middle school’s cross-country team. Jackson has been taking puberty blockers and “identifies” as a “girl.”

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law violated Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause.

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In Little v. Hecox, former Idaho State University cross-country and track runner Madison Kenyon joined the lawsuit after being forced to compete against a male during her freshman year in 2019. Kenyon and Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador are asking the High Court to uphold the state’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the law from going into effect.

In March 2020, Idaho enacted the law that bans males from participating in women’s student athletics. The law allows any person to dispute the sex of a student athlete. Lindsay Hecox, a male who wanted to join the Boise State University women’s track and cross-country teams, and “Jane Doe,” a woman who played on high school varsity teams and feared that her sex would be disputed under the law due to her masculine features, filed the lawsuit.

The Ninth Circuit ruled the law violates the Equal Protection Clause.  

President Donald Trump signed an executive order this year to stop males from competing in female sports and subsequently declared that “the war on women’s sports is over.” The U.S. Supreme Court now has the opportunity to issue a commonsense ruling and protect female athletes. Many female athletes have been competitively, physically, and emotionally harmed by policies allowing males into their sports and private spaces, and this must end.

But Congress is working to THWART SCOTUS!

Right now, Congress is working on HR 15 and S 1503, aka the “Equality Act.” If passed, this act will turn basic biology on its head and force all of society to accept and promote the transgendered agenda. That means girls and women will be forced to share their locker rooms, showers, bunkhouses, and sports with biological boys and men.

The legislation effectively establishes LGBTQ as a protected class with more rights than ANY other class of people — including people of faith.

That’s because in addition to forcing men into women’s sports, the Equality Act also specifically revokes the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Religious schools, universities, and even churches will be affected.

We cannot allow the Equality Act to pass. Please take a moment RIGHT NOW to fax Congress and demand they VOTE NO on HR 15 & S 1503!

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