Title IX - Supreme Court Hearings

From the article:

The trans athlete filed a lawsuit in July 2021, at age 11, successfully blocking West Virginia's law that prohibits biological males from competing in girls' sports.

In April 2024, a federal appeals court upheld the block on West Virginia's law, saying the law cannot lawfully be applied to a middle school-aged trans girl who has been taking puberty-blocking medication and has publicly identified as a girl since third grade.

Transed by his parents at the age of 8.

Parents going to court when he's 11 to ensure that he knows he can just take what he wants from girls.

Completely fucked up and sexually harassing girls by 13.

The parents should be prosecuted for child abuse.

Fingers crossed SCOTUS rule to protect the girls.

However Title IX comes with Federal funding which the States wont be able to get if they don't comply with the law which is what the Supreme Court will rule on.

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I also think we shouldn't underestimate what huge bravery those girls have shown by speaking up. There will be countless adults who are wedded to the insane ideology that boys can become girls (just by saying so, regardless of their bodily differences) who will be gunning for them now. There's two of them, I bet there are a dozen more at least scared to speak up.

Shame on those school officials for doing nothing about sexual harassment of girls and creating a situation where it's so much more likely to happen - looks like they didn't even investigate. Pathetic, craven, misogynistic cowards the lot of them.

It makes me so angry. It's government and school sanctioned sexual harassment of girls. Him being in their changing room is sexual harassment before you get to him using the power he has as a boy and making such disgusting comments.

I believe her.

I also don't think the adults who are failing at safeguarding and adulting are doing what's best for him. They're pretty much making him into an abuser because he knows he can get away with anything and they'll roll over. He's a teenage boy, of course he's going to push boundaries but there are no healthy boundaries. He's been offered up the competitions and bodies of girls on a platter.

Archive link:

https://archive.ph/gnZUJ

To spread that sunlight even further 🙂

The allegations made by Adaleia Cross, just for the info of people who aren’t familiar with US school grades, took place when she was fourteen and the trans athlete thirteen. Depending how old they are within their year group either could have been one year younger. One of my granddaughters is 13, will be 14 in a couple of months, and is in 8th grade, which is the top grade of middle school.

Sunlight!

Trans athlete at center of Supreme Court case accused of sexual harassment, intimidation tactics against girls
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/trans-athlete-center-supreme-court-case-accused-sexual-harassment-intimidation-tactics-against-girls

i think a ruling against biological reality should lead to more and more boys saying they are girls and making the whole thing so public and ridiculous that people finally take notice.

And then when there are 10 boys in the finals of the girls 100m, girls can say "oh i know, we'll set up a girls event" and we start all over again

In my state, boys are allowed to compete against girls if they state a transgender identity. I for one look forward to the SC judgement on this issue as I think it will go in a sex-realism direction. It is possible that the three liberal women justices (Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson) may dissent on ideological grounds, and if they do I look forward to reading their rationale to see how coherent they can make it.

And it’s taking long enough to get it all implemented here in the UK without having federal vs state law to deal with.

There's a similarity in the cases, but a huge difference between US and UK legal systems that makes it difficult to compare the two.

The biggest differences are that in US federal law interfaces with state law in way that's very different than how British law interfaces with devolved law. States will still be able to define sex to be gender identity either through administrative encroachment or affirmative law by state legislatures. However that won't be permitted to be done in way that contradicts federal law (and the US SC interpretation). Without the US SC judgement it's impossible to know what that cohabitation of concepts 'federal sex' vs 'state sex' will look like.

The second difference is that the U.S. Supreme Court typically issues broader, more doctrinally ambitious rulings than the UK Supreme Court. In the FWS ruling the UK Supreme Court set forth its principles and the reasoning that it used to arrive at its ruling, but ruled relatively narrowly. By contrast, the US Supreme Court often uses individual cases - including statutory cases - to articulate wide‑ranging constitutional or interpretive principles that reshape entire areas of law. As a result, a Title IX ruling redefining ‘sex’ would likely be more explicitly sweeping in downstream effects than the UK SC’s FWS judgment.

Would this be equivalent to the UK Supreme Court clarification of the meaning of ‘woman’ in the Equality Act, or would it have different ramifications?

Thank you!🙏

The Title IX lawsuit is interesting. On the one hand it's a fairly narrow case - it asks the question: does 'sex' mean biological sex or does it mean gender identity with respect to Title IX, Title IX being a law that stipulates that in order for schools to obtain federal funds they must not discriminate on the basis of sex. One of the implications of Title IX is that if schools have sports programs like football that are by their very nature not coed, then they must also have sports programs that are exclusively for girls and there must be parity between the two programs.

So, a ruling against American Civil Liberties Union would most likely involve a blanket determination that 'sex' must be interpreted as 'biological sex' in all instances of federal administration law and that it's impermissible for administrative law to blur that distinction or redefine sex to mean gender. That would be a seismic ruling with major reverberations throughout the US legal system. It would essentially be a clean reset of GI encroachment though administrative law and friendly judicial rulings and would require future gender identity recognition in law to be grounded in positive legislation explicitly defining it. In addition there's evidence to indicate the the US Supreme Court is anxious to make such a ruling.

Is this elite sport or all sporting events? Sorry for my ignorance of the case.