“It hurt that the State of West Virginia would try to block me from pursuing my dreams,' Becky Pepper-Jackson, 11, said. 'I just want to play.”
into law in April, which bars transgender girls from competing on sports teams at public middle schools and high schools or at state universities. At the time, Justice said it was the “right thing to do.”
The judge for the Southern District of West Virginia rejected that notion, saying the law likely violates the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause and the government’s Title IX requirements. “A fear of the unknown and discomfort with the unfamiliar have motivated many of the most malignant harms committed by our country’s governments on their own citizens,” Goodwin wrote in his decision. “Out of fear of those less like them, the powerful have made laws that restricted who could attend what schools, who could work certain jobs, who could marry whom, and even how people can practice their religions.
He added: “I have been provided with scant evidence that this law addresses any problem at all, let alone an important problem.” Becky is an amazing kid who deserves the same opportunities as every girl her age. And Becky has a lot of people in her corner in this battle, including
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