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And this is because the Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases involving transathletes

These ones starting from back in 2020 and 2021, the very beginning of this movement.

And the lawsuits are arguing that Title IX and the Constitution, as a related concern—

They actually prohibit banning trans athletes.

And these athletes, in this case, there's a cross-country runner, a middle schooler in West Virginia.

There's a college student in Idaho, also a cross-country runner.

So it's the other way.

Riley Gaines is arguing Title IX requires banning trans athletes.

These cases argue the opposite spin.

Right.

Does Title IX require trans women to be banned from women's sports, or does it prohibit you from passing those bans because that's a kind of sex discrimination?

We're going to get an answer to the question of whether these bans are forbidden, presumably next year when the Supreme Court decides these cases, probably by next summer.

And, you know, P.S., down in the lower courts, the circuit courts, they ruled in favor of the trans athletes.

So we're going to find out if the Supreme Court agrees.

And if they do, that could invalidate all of those state laws that Riley Gaines helped pass banning trans women from women's sports.

And so I just think of what Riley Gaines told the New York Times this summer in yet another interview that she gave.

And she said, quote, the gender ideology movement is a house of cards.

And I believe it's lying on the sports issue.

This will be the card that makes all of it crumble.

What she's saying is that sports, the fight over sports, is the key to getting anti-trans policies passed on all of these levels, getting court wins for her and for her allies that are going to have ramifications for trans people's rights.