Explaining the Supreme Court ruling empowering states to ban transgender female athletes from competing in women’s sports Katie Barnes | ESPN | July 1, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/07/01/explaining-the-supreme-court-ruling-empowering-states-to-ban-transgender-female-athletes-from-competing-in-womens-sports/ [The Supreme Court] issued a narrow decision focused specifically on the unique context of sports,” ACLU senior counsel Joshua Block said. “It didn’t issue a broader decision saying that Title IX, in general, didn’t protect transgender students. … And it didn’t issue a sweeping ruling saying that under the Constitution it’s perfectly fine to discriminate based on transgender status.”