Kristen Waggoner

Nice to see you.

Thank you for having me.

I'm optimistic about how the justices will rule.

I do think that they will rule to uphold equal opportunity and fairness and safety for women.

And that's thrilling after such a long time of not having it on the field.

Alliance Defending Freedom has been representing female athletes for the better part of 10 years.

Some are in states that are protecting women and others are in states that are violating their rights.

What the issue was before the Supreme Court yesterday involved whether states have the right to protect women's equal opportunities on the playing field.

So it's the 27 states and whether states can proactively do the right thing.

In terms of the 23 states, we heard at oral argument some discussion about the justices kind of thinking ahead what comes next and how will this ruling play out in those other cases as well.

Essentially, they are Fairness in Women's Sports Act or Save Women's Sports Act.

They have different names, but they're all focused around ensuring that male athletes are not playing in the female category.

And that can occur both at the collegiate level, but also we can think of high school and middle school levels.

There are two laws that are in play, one from West Virginia, one from Idaho.

We have the privilege of standing alongside the West Virginia and Idaho attorneys general as they defended their laws.

But we also represent three female athletes in these cases.

And two of those athletes had to play multiple times or had to run against a male athlete multiple times.

And that male athlete actually took the Big Sky Championship away from another deserving female athlete.

We also represent Lainey Armistead out of West Virginia, who went to school on a scholarship.

And under Title IX, there are a finite number of scholarships that you can get.