Maureen Groppe

So you can't say it just affects, for example, the one student in West Virginia who is challenging this because it also affects all the other students she is competing against and might beat or might take a slot on a team.

But in terms of how many transgender athletes there are, there are no definitive statistics on that.

The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law

That's a think tank that researches these types of issues.

They have estimated that as many as 122,000 transgender youth could be participating in high school level team athletics and that at the college level, less than 1.5% of student athletes are probably transgender.

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There are two issues, whether these laws violate the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection that says that people who are in similar situations should be treated similarly under the law.

There's also the question of whether these laws violate Title IX, which is the civil rights statute that prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational programs.

One of the disputes in this case is how big a problem there is that these laws are trying to address.

The states that are passing these laws say there's a huge problem out there with transgender athletes unfairly competing against non-transgender females.

The other side, the students who are challenging this, say these laws are way broad and they're only affecting a small group of people.

In the case of the West Virginia student who's challenging it, she says West Virginia's ban, she's the only person who the ban applies to in the entire state.

The states say that their bans are different because, well, someone's gender doesn't usually make a difference in the workplace.

They say that whether you're a boy or a girl has a huge difference for how you were able to compete on the playing field.

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