South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is praising a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that allows states to restrict participation in girls’ and women’s school sports to biological females.
Jackley said he joined two legal cases challenging attempts to allow transgender athletes to compete in girls’ and women’s sports. Both cases, West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox, were included in the Supreme Court’s decision.
In a 6-3 ruling issued June 30, the nation’s highest court upheld laws in Idaho and West Virginia that limit girls’ and women’s school sports teams to biological females, finding that such laws do not violate the Equal Protection Clause or Title IX.
South Dakota law prohibits transgender girls and women from participating on female school athletic teams and requires students to compete on teams that correspond with their sex assigned at birth.
The Supreme Court’s decision is expected to have implications for similar laws in more than two dozen states, including South Dakota.
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