Becky Pepper-Jackson wins 3rd place in state championship event as gov makes vow

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey promised to maintain the struggle to guard the game of ladies and women as a transgenderatleet that competed towards women within the state championship.

Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 13-year-old first-year pupil at Bridport Senior Excessive Faculty who has been the topic of a Supreme Courtroom case about their participation in women sports activities, completed in third place within the Discus occasion and the eighth within the Schotput competitors.

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West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey speaks throughout a press convention on the Well being and Human Providers division on April 22, 2025 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty photos)

Whereas Pepper-Jackson participated within the assembly, Morrisey urged officers to maintain particular person scores.

“A boy is presently competing in women’ sports activities in the highschool state observe in West Virginia,” Morrisey wrote on Fb. “It’s incorrect and unfair. I’m as soon as once more insisting on civil servants to maintain particular person scores, in order that the true winners might be granted as quickly as we win in court docket.

“We won’t cease combating to guard women’ sports activities.”

A federal court docket of attraction blocked a West Virginia legislation that may be sure that organic males would compete towards women and girls in sport final 12 months. The court docket mentioned that the legislation can’t be legally utilized to a trans-girl from highschool, which used puberty-blocking medicine and has publicly recognized as a lady since third grade.

West Virginia has since appealed to the Supreme Courtroom with regard to the choice of the Courtroom of Enchantment.

Becky Pepper-Jackson attends the Lambda Authorized Liberty Awards on 8 June 2023 in New York Metropolis. (Roy Rochlin/Getty photos for Lambda Authorized)

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In 2023, Justices of the Supreme Courtroom refused to disrupt a court docket command that made the lady potential to proceed enjoying on the observe and cross-country groups of her highschool.

Whereas the West Virginia Excessive Faculty Monitor and Area moved within the late season, Morrisey referred to as on coaches to have athletes taken “a stand” towards transgender who participated in women sports activities.

“I consider what’s going on in West Virginia – with boys who train towards women – to be disgusting and opposite to the legislation,” he wrote on Fb. “Whereas we’re ready for the Supreme Courtroom to publish their assertion on this case, I name on all of the coaches concerned to take a place for these courageous athletes for what is sweet with out unfair punishment.

Patrick Morrisey speaks at a marketing campaign occasion on October 22, 2018 in Inwood, West Virginia. (Win McNamee/Getty Pictures)

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“As a result of all of us work on eradicating the wrongly described order within the coming months, I ask all event officers to keep up a full collection of outcomes, in order that actual winners of every occasion might be acknowledged when the Supreme Courtroom guidelines in our favor.”

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