Asha (Aysha) Bagchi

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The Excerpt · Trump dealt major blow with birthright citizenship ruling · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

and that the laws violated the Equal Protection Clause in the Constitution.

That's a clause that says that people have equal protection of the laws.

And the justices ruled here that the state laws are not in violation of either of those things.

That basically states that

have the ability to make distinctions between male and female sexes when it comes to sports, that there's an interest in fairness that allows for that.

And essentially, the majority ruled that states are better positioned to kind of figure out these scientific questions, at least compared to courts.

and make policy decisions when it comes to analyzing the abilities of transgender athletes.

And that includes transgender athletes who have gone through different sorts of medical processes.

You know, there are transgender girls and women who took puberty blockers that prevented them from going through male puberty and then took estrogen that put them on hormones that people challenging these laws say really change their status and mean that they don't have this

added benefit.

So the justices, the majority of them said, it's really not for us to evaluate those sorts of nuances.

It's really better left to the states to do that.

But states are permitted to make these sorts of restrictions when it comes to transgender girls and transgender women participating in women's athletics.

The dissents here basically said that

there should be a bit more nuance to how courts are evaluating these issues and that this case should have been sent down to a lower court to look at those sorts of factual issues.

Are there specific cases in which you have transgender girls and transgender women who have gone through medical processes that mean that they don't have the type of advantages that men and boys who've gone through especially

male puberty have when it comes to sports that really form the basis of why states are allowed to separate the sexes for athletics to begin with.

This ruling sends the message to them that their bans are also going to pass muster for the Supreme Court when it comes to understanding the Constitution and federal law.

It basically gives them a buttress for thinking that they can issue these bans and that the bans are not going to be struck down in court.

That's right.

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