SCOTUS trans athlete battle: Which star athletes, lawmakers have picked a side?

With the U.S. Supreme Court docket set to rule on two instances targeted on the difficulty of organic males in girls’s sports activities, a whole bunch of outstanding figures in sports activities and politics have publicly taken a aspect. 

No less than 77 amicus briefs have been filed for the upcoming courtroom assessment, some in assist of the trans athlete plaintiffs and a few in assist of the “save girls’s sports activities” defendants. Famed athletes, coaches, U.S. lawmakers and different state and federal authorities officers have signed onto these briefs, declaring their allegiance within the historic authorized battle. 

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This is a breakdown of who’s on which aspect: 

Athletes, coaches and sports activities officers supporting the “save girls’s sports activities” defendants

(Left) Former aggressive swimmer Riley Gaines speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee former U.S. President Donald Trump at Desert Diamond Enviornment in Glendale, Arizona, on Aug. 23, 2024. (Proper) Martina Navratilova within the Royal Field for the Women’ Singles Ultimate on Centre Court docket in the course of the Wimbledon Garden Tennis Championships on the All England Garden Tennis and Croquet Membership in London, England, on July 12, 2025. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Photographs;Tim Clayton/Getty Photographs)

• Martina Navratilova, 59-time Grand Slam Champion tennis participant
• Donna de Varona, Olympic gold medalist swimmer and world report holder
• Summer time Sanders, Olympic gold medalist swimmer
• Riley Gaines, 12-time NCAA All-American swimmer and SEC report holder
• Reka Gyorgy, Olympic swimmer and a couple of× ACC champion
• Lauren Miller, skilled girls’s golfer
• Hannah Arensman, skilled cyclocross bike owner and nationwide champion
• Laura Wilkinson, Olympic gold medalist and world champion diver
• Pamela Behrens Golding, Olympic athlete
• Jill Sterkel, Olympic swimmer and former College of Texas head swim coach
• Nancy Hogshead, Olympic gold medalist swimmer
• Lacey John, Olympic silver medalist and NCAA Girl of the Yr
• Connie Paraskevin, Olympic velocity skater and monitor bike owner
• Mary T. Plant, Olympic gold medalist and world report holder swimmer
• Sippy Woodhead, Olympic swimmer and world report holder
• Inga Thompson, Olympic bike owner
• Jacqueline Zoch, Olympic rowing medalist
• Lynn Silliman Reed, Olympic bronze medalist rower
• Kelly Rickon Mitchell, Olympic rower (1980 & 1984)
• Marshi Smith, NCAA champion swimmer and ICONS co-founder
• Carol Brown, three-time Olympic rower and bronze medalist
• Mary I. O’Connor, Olympic rower and orthopedic surgeon
• Patricia Spratlen Etem, Olympic rower and public well being govt
• Valerie McClain, Olympic rower and World Championship medalist
• Jan Palchikoff, Olympic rower and sports activities administrator
• Jennifer Sey, U.S. nationwide champion gymnast and former Levi Strauss international model president
• Lauren Bondly, U.S. nationwide champion triathlete and engineer
• Janel Jorgensen McArdle, Olympic silver medalist swimmer
• Barry Switzer, Tremendous Bowl–profitable NFL head coach
• Gregg Troy, U.S. Olympic head swim coach
• Frank Busch, five-time Olympic swimming coach and former USA Swimming nationwide crew director
• Dennis Pursley, five-time Olympic swimming coach and Corridor of Fame inductee
• Jack Bauerle, Division I collegiate swim coach and lifelong achievement award recipient
• Kris Korzeniowski, Olympic rowing coach
• Peter Mallory, three-time U.S. girls’s Olympic rowing coach
• Nikola Vajda, World Rowing (FISA) official and founding father of Crystal Lake Rowing Membership
• Vincent J. Ventura, U.S. nationwide crew rowing coach and Olympic silver medal coach
• Jim Livengood, former Division I athletic director (Arizona State, Washington State, UNLV)
• Lisa Larsen Rainsberger, Boston Marathon champion and highschool monitor coach
• Kerri Walsh-Jennings, three-time Olympic gold medalist seaside volleyball participant
• Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson, Olympic gold medalist ice hockey ahead
• Monique Lamoureux-Morando, Olympic gold medalist ice hockey ahead
• Rhi Jeffrey, Olympic gold medalist swimmer
• Alison Townley, former affiliate govt director of the Girls’s Sports activities Basis
• Diane Vreugdenhil, Olympic rower
• Catrina Allen, skilled disc golf world champion
• Diana Anglin-Miller, NCAA champion cheerleader and gymnasium proprietor
• Allison Arensman, skilled bike owner
• Sarah Powers Barnhard, skilled volleyball participant and coach
• Cindy Bater, U.S. nationwide crew rowing athlete and coach
• Lauren Belden, highschool cross-country and monitor athlete
• Marianne Bosco, aggressive fencing athlete
• Bonnie Brandon, six-time All-American swimmer on the College of Arizona
• Mariah Burton Nelson, former skilled girls’s basketball participant
• Monika Burzynska, NCAA swimmer on the College of Pennsylvania
• Paula A. Cabot, former Girls’s Sports activities Basis analysis director and rugby participant
• Cissy Cochran, elite masters swimmer and coach
• Scott Cochran, energy and conditioning coach (collegiate {and professional} athletics)
• Madisan Debos, NCAA monitor athlete
• Jade Dickens, USA Powerlifting athlete
• Sonni Dyer, Division I collegiate triathlon head coach and Olympic alumni coach
• Evie Edwards, aggressive bike owner and guardian of youth feminine athlete
• Stephanie Elkins, Olympic swimmer
• Wendy Enderle, aggressive athlete
• Kelly Funderburk, Olympic creative gymnast
• Tom Funderburk, NCAA champion golfer
• Dianna (DeeDee) Fussner, skilled masters disc golf athlete
• Lori Garrison, NCAA softball athlete
• Shawna Glazier, aggressive bike owner and triathlete
• Meredith Gordon Remigino, former NCAA Division I cross-country and monitor athlete at Yale
• Annie Grevers, U.S. nationwide crew swimmer
• Angie Griffin, aggressive athlete
• Jan Harville, Olympic rowing coach
• Sarah Hokom, skilled disc golf world champion
• Ceci Hopp St. Geme, NCAA champion distance runner
• Vicki Huber-Rudawsky, two-time Olympian and NCAA champion distance runner
• Jen Hucke, two-time NCAA champion volleyball participant at Stanford
• Raime Jones, NCAA swimmer
• Samantha Keddington, former skilled disc golf athlete and coach
• Danielle Eager, skilled disc golf athlete
• Ronda Key, aggressive disc golf athlete
• Alexandra Kleinfehn, USA Powerlifting athlete
• Lauren Lackman, elite beginner athlete
• Kendall Lewis, aggressive athlete
• Donna Lopiano, six-time nationwide champion and former College of Texas athletic director
• Lisa Marshall, aggressive athlete
• Riona C. McCormick, aggressive rower
• Kim McGinnis Russell, worldwide lacrosse coach and nationwide crew coach
• Cynthia Millen, former NCAA and worldwide swimming official
• Cynthia Monteleone, masters monitor athlete
• Linda Muri, three-time world champion rower and elite rowing coach
• Macy Petty, former NCAA volleyball participant
• Keri Phebus Olson, NCAA champion tennis participant
• Pleasure Rako, former NCAA Division III monitor and discipline athlete
• Genoa Rossi, NCAA water polo athlete and U.S. junior nationwide crew member
• Linnea Saltz, three-time Large Sky Convention champion runner
• Samantha Santa Ana, highschool softball and cross-country athlete
• Jennifer Sees, NCAA pole vaulter and highschool monitor coach
• Jeri Shanteau, U.S. nationwide crew swimmer and nationwide champion
• Sharon Shapiro, NCAA champion and U.S. nationwide crew gymnast
• DeNee Shepherd, skilled disc golf athlete
• Bre Showers, NCAA champion creative gymnast
• Anne Simpson, NCAA rowing athlete
• Bronwyn Sims, gymnastics coach and athlete
• Kathy Smith Connor, U.S. nationwide crew swimmer
• Lori Stenstrom, nationwide champion athlete and former American report holder
• Steve Stenstrom, former NFL quarterback
• Tracy Sundlan, Olympic-level monitor and discipline coach and administrator
• Minna Svärd, aggressive athlete
• Becky Switzer, Olympic and NCAA girls’s gymnastics coach
• Maya Tait, NCAA rowing athlete
• Hollister (Holly) W. Turner, former affiliate govt director of the Girls’s Sports activities Basis
• Stephanie Turner, aggressive athlete
• Val Whiting, nationwide champion and former WNBA participant
• Sara Youthful-Merrill, US Rowing Degree II coach and assistant referee
• Reese Eckard, Oregon state championship high-jumper
• Madelyn Eischen, Oregon highschool varsity monitor athlete and high-jumper
• Alexa Anderson, Oregon state championship pole vaulter and high-jumper
• Sophia Castaneda, Oregon state report holder for quickest sophomore woman 400-meter runner

Athletes, coaches and sports activities officers supporting the trans athlete plaintiffs

Sue Fowl and Megan Rapinoe look on within the first quarter between america and France within the males’s basketball gold medal recreation in the course of the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer time Video games at Accor Enviornment on Aug. 10, 2024. (Kyle Terada/USA TODAY Sports activities)

• Megan Rapinoe, two-time FIFA Girls’s World Cup champion and former co-captain of the U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Soccer Staff
• Layshia Clarendon, former WNBA All-Star level guard and first brazenly trans and nonbinary participant in WNBA historical past
• Lori Lindsey, former U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Soccer Staff midfielder and World Cup veteran
• Aimee Mullins, Paralympic monitor and discipline world-record holder and former Chef de Mission for Staff USA
• Breanna Stewart, two-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time WNBA MVP
• Sue Fowl, Olympic gold medalist, WNBA champion, and Basketball Corridor of Famer
• Grete Eliassen, six-time X Video games medalist in freestyle snowboarding
• Serena Grey, former USA Volleyball nationwide crew member and NCAA event semifinalist
• Molly McCage, Olympic-level volleyball participant and League One Volleyball champion
• Cassidy Lichtman, former U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Volleyball Staff member and Stanford All-American
• Phaidra Knight, USA Rugby Participant of the Decade and World Rugby Corridor of Fame inductee
• Maya Satya Reddy, former skilled golfer and three-time NCAA All-American
• Julie Foudy, two-time FIFA Girls’s World Cup champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist
• Madison Bugg, former Stanford volleyball participant {and professional} volleyball athlete
• Gaby Vincent, former NWSL skilled soccer participant and U.S. Girls’s U-23 nationwide crew member
• Meike Babel, former WTA Prime-30 skilled tennis participant and collegiate coach
• Esther Lofgren, Olympic gold medalist rower and world report holder
• Carley Knox, former NCAA Division I soccer athlete and president of enterprise operations for the Minnesota Lynx
• Becky Sauerbrunn, two-time FIFA Girls’s World Cup champion and former U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Soccer Staff captain
• Taylor Fricano, skilled volleyball participant with seven years on the elite worldwide degree
• Samantha Mewis, FIFA Girls’s World Cup champion, Olympic medalist, and NWSL champion
• Nikki Hiltz, U.S. Olympic monitor and discipline athlete and nine-time nationwide champion
• Sophia Gibb, Paralympic silver and bronze medalist swimmer and world champion
• Mary Osborne Gilbert, skilled surfer
• Imani Dorsey, NWSL champion and U.S. Soccer social influence award recipient
• Brenda Villa, four-time Olympic medalist and former captain of the U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Water Polo Staff
• Lynn Biyendolo, Olympic gold medalist and four-time NWSL champion
• Erin Ayala, collegiate soccer participant and coach
• Elizabeth Tobey, collegiate monitor and discipline athlete
• Adam Myerson, national-level bike owner and elite-level coach
• Lucie Vagnerova, worldwide monitor and discipline competitor
• Rosy Metcalfe, elite collegiate rower
• Amy Rusiecki, NCAA monitor and discipline athlete
• Emma McKay, collegiate soccer participant
• Maddy Frey, collegiate monitor and discipline athlete
• Rachelle Depner, aggressive elite-level bike owner
• Jared Weybright, collegiate soccer coach and former participant

U.S. lawmakers and authorities officers supporting the “save girls’s sports activities” defendants

• Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind.
• Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C.
• Sen. Invoice Cassidy, R-La.
• Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va.
• Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho
• Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D.
• Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
• Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss.
• Sen. James C. Justice, R-W.Va.
• Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla.
• Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan.
• Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo.
• Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla.
• Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C.
• Sen. James E. Risch, R-Idaho
• Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Ala.
• Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas
• Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky.
• Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.
• Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga.
• Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga.
• Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga.
• Rep. James Comer, R-Ky.
• Rep. Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho
• Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas
• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
• Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo.
• Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C.
• Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C.
• Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-Tenn.
• Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La.
• Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla.
• Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
• Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich.
• Rep. Addison McDowell, R-N.C.
• Rep. John McGuire, R-Va.
• Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va.
• Rep. Mary Miller, R-Unwell.
• Rep. Riley M. Moore, R-W.Va.
• Rep. Barry Moore, R-Ala.
• Rep. Tim Moore, R-N.C.
• Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn.
• Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky.
• Rep. John Rose, R-Tenn.
• Rep. Mike Rulli, R-Ohio
• Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La.
• Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho
• Rep. Daniel Webster, R-Fla.
• Solicitor Basic of america D. John Sauer
• Assistant Legal professional Basic of america Harmeet Okay. Dhillon
• Deputy Solicitor Basic of america Hashim M. Mooppan
• Principal Deputy Assistant Legal professional Basic of america Jesus A. Osete
• Assistant to the Solicitor Basic of america Max E. Schulman
• Legal professional for america Andrew G. Braniff
• Legal professional for america Christopher C. Wang
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Alabama Steve Marshall
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Arkansas Tim Griffin
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Florida Ashley Moody
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Indiana Todd Rokita
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Kansas Kris Kobach
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Kentucky Russell Coleman
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Louisiana Liz Murrill
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Mississippi Lynn Fitch
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Missouri Andrew Bailey
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Montana Austin Knudsen
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Nebraska Mike Hilgers
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Oklahoma Gentner Drummond
• Legal professional Basic of the State of South Carolina Alan Wilson
• Legal professional Basic of the State of South Dakota Marty Jackley
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Tennessee Jonathan Skrmetti
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Texas Ken Paxton
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Utah Sean Reyes
• Legal professional Basic of the Commonwealth of Virginia Jason Miyares
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Wyoming Bridget Hill 

U.S. lawmakers and authorities officers supporting the trans athlete plaintiffs

Prime Democrat lawmakers who signed an amicus temporary to assist trans athletes in an upcoming Supreme Court docket assessment embody Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Sen. Alex Padilla, Sen. Adam Schiff, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Alexadria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Hakeen Jeffries, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Pete Aguilar and Rep. Jasmine Crockett. (Courtesy of Home.Gov, Senate.gov, Congress.gov)

• Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.
• Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii
• Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass.
• Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.
• Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
• Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif.
• Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
• Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif.
• Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt.
• Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif.
• Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio
• Rep. Donald Beyer, D-Va.
• Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore.
• Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y.
• Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo.
• Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif.
• Rep. Tony Cárdenas, D-Calif.
• Rep. André Carson, D-Ind.
• Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla.
• Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas
• Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif.
• Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass.
• Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y.
• Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo.
• Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C.
• Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J.
• Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va.
• Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn.
• Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo.
• Rep. Danny Davis, D-Unwell.
• Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kan.
• Rep. Susan DelBene, D-Wash.
• Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo.
• Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa.
• Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.
• Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Calif.
• Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich.
• Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas
• Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas
• Rep. Invoice Foster, D-Unwell.
• Rep. Lois Frankel, D-Fla.
• Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas
• Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García, D-Unwell.
• Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif.
• Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J.
• Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.
• Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga.
• Rep. Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y.
• Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas
• Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif.
• Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.
• Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas
• Rep. Invoice Keating, D-Mass.
• Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.
• Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J.
• Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Unwell.
• Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif.
• Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, D-N.M.
• Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.
• Rep. Alan Lowenthal, D-Calif.
• Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M. (at time of signing)
• Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass.
• Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.
• Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y.
• Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga.
• Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y.
• Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis.
• Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y.
• Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C.
• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
• Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J.
• Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
• Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine
• Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.
• Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md.
• Rep. Deborah Ross, D-N.C.
• Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif.
• Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Unwell.
• Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash.
• Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif.
• Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.
• Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif.
• Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.
• Rep. Norma Torres, D-Calif.
• Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass.
• Rep. Juan Vargas, D-Calif.
• Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.
• Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.
• Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pa.
• Rep. Nikema Williams, D-Ga.
• Rep. Gabe Amo, D-R.I.
• Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz.
• Rep. Nanette Barragán, D-Calif.
• Rep. Wesley Bell, D-Mo.
• Rep. Shontel M. Brown, D-Ohio
• Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif.
• Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas
• Rep. Sean Casten, D-Unwell.
• Rep. Gilbert R. Cisneros Jr., D-Calif.
• Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn.
• Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn.
• Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas
• Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa.
• Rep. Maxine Dexter, D-Ore.
• Rep. Sarah Elfreth, D-Md.
• Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y.
• Rep. Dwight Evans, D-Pa.
• Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, D-Texas
• Rep. Valerie P. Foushee, D-N.C.
• Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, D-Fla.
• Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif.
• Rep. Al Inexperienced, D-Texas
• Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif.
• Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md.
• Rep. Julie E. Johnson, D-Texas
• Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif.
• Rep. Robin L. Kelly, D-Unwell.
• Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Ohio
• Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash.
• Rep. George Latimer, D-N.Y.
• Rep. Summer time L. Lee, D-Pa.
• Rep. Sam T. Liccardo, D-Calif.
• Rep. Ted W. Lieu, D-Calif.
• Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif.
• Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del.
• Rep. April McClain Delaney, D-Md.
• Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Va.
• Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn.
• Rep. James P. McGovern, D-Mass.
• Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J.
• Rep. Rob Menendez, D-N.J.
• Rep. Kelly Morrison, D-Minn.
• Rep. Kevin Mullin, D-Calif.
• Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.
• Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H.
• Rep. Scott H. Peters, D-Calif.
• Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo.
• Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis.
• Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Unwell.
• Rep. Delia C. Ramirez, D-Unwell.
• Rep. Emily Randall, D-Wash.
• Rep. Luz Rivas, D-Calif.
• Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Ore.
• Rep. Linda T. Sánchez, D-Calif.
• Rep. Mary Homosexual Scanlon, D-Pa.
• Rep. Bradley S. Schneider, D-Unwell.
• Rep. Hillary Scholten, D-Mich.
• Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, D-Va.
• Rep. Terri A. Sewell, D-Ala.
• Rep. Lateefah Simon, D-Calif.
• Rep. Eric Sorensen, D-Unwell.
• Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich.
• Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif.
• Rep. Jill N. Tokuda, D-Hawaii
• Rep. Paul D. Tonko, D-N.Y.
• Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y.
• Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Unwell.
• Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez, D-N.Y.
• Rep. James R. Walkinshaw, D-Va.
• Rep. Frederica S. Wilson, D-Fla.
• Legal professional Basic of the State of New York Letitia James
• Legal professional Basic of the State of Hawaii Anne E. Lopez
• Solicitor Basic of the State of New York Barbara D. Underwood
• Solicitor Basic of the State of Hawaiʻi Kalikoʻonālani Fernandes
• Deputy Solicitor Basic of the State of Hawaiʻi Lauren Okay. Chun
• Deputy Solicitor Basic of the State of Hawaiʻi Andrew Z. M. Teoh
• Assistant Legal professional Basic of the State of New York Judith N. Vale
• Assistant Legal professional Basic of the State of New York Mark S. Grube

What to know in regards to the instances

Idaho and West Virginia are amongst virtually 30 states with legal guidelines stopping transgender college students who determine as feminine from competing on women’ sports activities groups sponsored by public colleges and schools. In 2020 and 2021, the trans athlete plaintiffs efficiently challenged the legal guidelines in Idaho and West Virginia, respectively, to allow their participation on girls’s and women’ sports activities groups. 

Each trans athletes are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). 

The justices will look at whether or not the landmark federal regulation, Title IX forbidding intercourse discrimination in training, applies in these inclusion instances.      

Idaho in 2020 grew to become the primary state to go such restrictions with the Equity in Girls’s Sports activities Act.

Either side within the authorized dispute have accused the opposite of peddling false and deceptive information, terminology and narratives about enforcement of the state legal guidelines, and the stakes for each transgender and cisgender athletes.

The Supreme Court docket in July agreed to listen to the separate appeals from the states and is anticipated to situation ultimate, binding rulings on the deserves by late June.

“Idaho’s girls and women deserve an equal taking part in discipline,” mentioned Idaho Legal professional Basic Raul Labrador, who is anticipated to argue the case in Tuesday’s public session. “For too lengthy, activists have labored to sideline girls and women in their very own sports activities.”         

States with such legal guidelines, and teams and lawmakers supporting them, say the difficulty is about frequent sense and scholar security.

Legal professionals will inform the excessive courtroom there are inherent bodily variations between females and males, and these legislative acts would guarantee these they name “male” or “boy” college students can’t compete on women’ sports activities groups involving aggressive talent or contact.

However LGBTQ+ rights supporters say such legal guidelines and labels are clearly discriminatory and had been by no means an enormous situation till some states sought to politicize them.

In the meantime, two West Virginia feminine college students and their households got here ahead with the allegations in opposition to one of many trans plaintiffs forward of oral arguments for the case subsequent week. Fox Information Digital shouldn’t be disclosing the identify of the trans athlete as a result of the person is a minor.

TOP DEMS SILENT AFTER TRANS ATHLETE THEY BACKED IN SCOTUS CASE IS ACCUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT, INTIMIDATION

Bridgeport Excessive College feminine scholar Adaleia Cross, who’s a former monitor and discipline teammate of the trans athlete when the 2 had been at Bridgeport Center College, alleges the trans athlete made feedback to her that constituted sexual harassment within the women’ locker room. Cross, who’s one 12 months older than the trans athlete, mentioned she stop the monitor and discipline crew at Bridgeport Excessive College final 12 months as a sophomore to keep away from sharing a locker room once more with the trans athlete as soon as that athlete reached highschool.

Cross’ mom, Abby, informed Fox Information Digital what the trans athlete allegedly mentioned to her daughter after they shared the women’ locker room in the course of the 2022-23 college 12 months. Adaleia was in eighth grade, and the trans athlete was in seventh.

Abby Cross alleged that the trans athlete made extraordinarily graphic and vulgar sexual threats to her daughter and different women on the crew.

The ACLU has responded to the Cross household’s allegations.

“Our shopper and her mom deny these allegations and the college district investigated the allegations reported to the college by A.C. and located them to be unsubstantiated. We stay dedicated to defending the rights of all college students beneath Title IX, together with the fitting to a protected and inclusive studying surroundings free from harassment and discrimination,” learn an ACLU assertion supplied to Fox Information Digital.

The Cross household’s attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) have responded to the ACLU’s assertion. 

“Our shopper has sworn beneath oath and beneath penalty of perjury in quite a few instances in regards to the occasions that passed off between her and the male athlete. Because of the scenario, [Cross] needed to step away from the game she cherished solely and sacrifice a key component of her college expertise to guard herself,” learn an ADF assertion supplied to Fox Information Digital. 

ADF can also be representing the state of West Virginia in opposition to the trans athlete within the case that’s set to be reviewed by the Supreme Court docket.

Former Lincoln Center College women’ monitor and discipline runner Emmy Salerno alleges the trans athlete used “intimidation techniques” in opposition to her after Salerno refused to compete in opposition to the trans athlete throughout an occasion within the 2024 spring season. 

“After we stepped out, it was an instantaneous character change. He did not need to speak to me. He simply needed to stare at me, and simply stare down,” Salerno informed Fox Information Digital.

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Salerno mentioned there was an incident the place the trans athlete adopted her whereas they had been at a neighborhood basketball recreation, making intimidating stares, and Salerno was involved the trans athlete would attempt to “struggle” her.

“On the basketball recreation when he simply adopted me all over the place, I form of felt like, ‘Is he going to attempt to struggle me?’” Salerno mentioned. “‘Is he going to attempt to sneak up behind me and punch me?'”

The ACLU has not responded to Fox Information Digital’s request for a response to Salerno’s allegations. 

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