Cecilia Lei
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The Trump administration is now saying the court's decision also applies to agricultural programs and employment.
Zooming in on another Supreme Court ruling, justices upheld two state laws that barred transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports teams.
One challenge came from a trans woman in Idaho who was blocked from trying out for the track and field team at her university.
Another came from a mother in West Virginia who challenged a law preventing her child, a trans girl, from playing on her middle school's sports team.
Brooke Migdon covers LGBTQ plus rights for the 19th, a newsroom that focuses on gender and politics.
Split along ideological lines, the six conservative justices concluded the bans violated neither.
More than half of U.S.
states have similar laws on the books, but the justices opted against a broader ruling.
That means states without bands can continue allowing transgender student athletes to compete on girls' and women's sports teams.
It also means states with bands, or those considering them, might feel confident their laws will survive any legal challenges.
President Trump called it a big win, and West Virginia Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito told Fox News it could jumpstart the push for similar federal legislation.
Advocates say these bans shut out transgender girls and women from competing in their chosen sport.
Speaking to AP before the verdict, Becky Pepper-Jackson, the teenager at the center of the West Virginia case, spoke to AP from a sports field.
The bans would affect a very small number of people.
In West Virginia, Pepper Jackson is the only known athlete subject to the law.
But the issue has gained a lot of traction in the last few years.
It was an important part of the president's campaign.
And shortly after taking office, Trump signed an executive order aimed at keeping transgender women out of women's sports.
It's created something of a divide inside the Democratic Party, with some vocally defending transgender athletes and others appearing to shift in their positions in light of public opinion.
In a 2025 New York Times-Ipsos poll, nearly 80 percent of respondents opposed allowing transgender women to compete in women's sports.
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