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B. P. J. The state defends its law as a way to keep girls' sports safe and fair. The student says the law excludes her from teams based on who she is."],"sources":[{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 101, lines 49-45","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 101, lines 49-45"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 44, lines 35-47","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 44, lines 35-47"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 5, lines 23-21","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 5, lines 23-21"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 68, lines 39-49","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 68, lines 39-49"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 74, lines 21-55","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 74, lines 21-55"}]},{"heading":"How the case got here","paragraphs":["Lower courts have weighed the state's law and the student's challenge. The Supreme Court heard the dispute after those rulings."],"sources":[{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 5, lines 11-21","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 5, lines 11-21"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 75, lines 7-37","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 75, lines 7-37"}]},{"heading":"What each side wants","paragraphs":["West Virginia wants the Court to uphold its law. It argues states have long assigned sports teams by sex and that separate teams let girls compete safely and fairly.","B. P. J. wants the law struck down. She says she joined school sports as an eleven-year-old girl starting a new middle school who wanted friends and teammates."],"sources":[{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 101, lines 49-45","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 101, lines 49-45"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 44, lines 35-47","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 44, lines 35-47"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 5, lines 23-21","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 5, lines 23-21"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 68, lines 39-49","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 68, lines 39-49"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 74, lines 21-55","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 74, lines 21-55"}]},{"heading":"What each side says","paragraphs":["The state's lawyer focused on what he called the easiest ways to resolve both claims in the case.","The student's lawyer pointed to a tension between Title IX's text, which protects individuals, and regulations that allow some group-based measurements."],"sources":[{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 101, lines 49-45","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 101, lines 49-45"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 44, lines 35-47","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 44, lines 35-47"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 5, lines 23-21","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 5, lines 23-21"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 68, lines 39-49","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 68, lines 39-49"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 74, lines 21-55","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 74, lines 21-55"}]},{"heading":"What the justices asked","paragraphs":["Justice Gorsuch pressed why a point was missing from a brief, saying he knew what the Court had said and wondered about what it had not said.","Justice Jackson asked whether the Spending Clause's notice requirement has ever applied outside damages claims, calling that a possible crux of that approach here. She also asked who the relevant contract is between, noting schools, not the state, are the regulated party here."],"sources":[{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 10, lines 21-23","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 10, lines 21-23"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 10, lines 29-31","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 10, lines 29-31"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 10, lines 37-39","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 10, lines 37-39"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 10, lines 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The justices' questions tested both sides' arguments."],"sources":[{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 101, lines 49-45","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 101, lines 49-45"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 44, lines 35-47","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 44, lines 35-47"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 5, lines 23-21","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 5, lines 23-21"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 68, lines 39-49","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 68, lines 39-49"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 74, lines 21-55","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 74, lines 21-55"}]},{"heading":"What the Court decided","paragraphs":["Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause both permit schools to keep women's and girls' sports teams limited to biological females, meaning students whose sex is determined by biology. The laws in West Virginia and Idaho are therefore constitutional and lawful.","The Supreme Court reversed the lower courts' rulings and remanded the cases for further proceedings consistent with its decision."],"sources":[{"evidence_type":"Opinion","label":"Official Supreme Court Opinion — file page 2, lines 1-1","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-43_2b35.pdf","page_label":"file page 2, lines 1-1"},{"evidence_type":"Opinion","label":"Official Supreme Court Opinion — file page 5, lines 1-1","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-43_2b35.pdf","page_label":"file page 5, lines 1-1"}]}],"slug":"2025-24-43-west-virginia-v-b-p-j","term":"2025","title":"Can West Virginia Keep Transgender Girls Off Girls' School Sports Teams?","title_sources":[{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 101, lines 49-45","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 101, lines 49-45"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 44, lines 35-47","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 44, lines 35-47"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 5, lines 23-21","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 5, lines 23-21"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 68, lines 39-49","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 68, lines 39-49"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 74, lines 21-55","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/24-43_ihdj.pdf","page_label":"file page 74, lines 21-55"}],"topics":[],"undated_disposition_date_fallback":"latest_argument_date","updated_at":"2026-09-05T03:22:24Z"}