{"id":2434,"date":"2026-06-30T17:37:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:37:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:37:45","slug":"trans-students-can-be-kept-out-of-sports-court-says-what-it-means-for-sc-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=2434","title":{"rendered":"Trans students can be kept out of sports, court says. What it means for SC bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><!-- --><!-- --><!-- WPS-5038 -- removed the script from WPS and added the placeholder for trinity player --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- CONTENT --><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>South Carolina can restrict transgender students from participating in school sports after the U.S. Supreme Court determined similar laws in two other states were constitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=2432\">Some SC parents don\u2019t want kids on school laptops. They\u2019ll soon share opinions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>South Carolina passed a law in 2022 to keep transgender students out of sports that align with their gender identity. The ban prohibits transgender girls from playing on girls\u2019 sports teams in public school and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that similar challenged laws in other states could stand, affirming South Carolina\u2019s ban on students participating in sports that don\u2019t align with their gender assigned at birth.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Transgender athletes in West Virginia and Idaho challenged their states\u2019 laws that prohibited them from participating on girls\u2019 sports teams, arguing the bans allegedly violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. B.P.J., a transgender girl who wanted to run on her school\u2019s cross country team, also argued the West Virginia law violated Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in sports.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The court determined the state laws violated neither the equal protection clause nor Title IX. The decision could also provide sweeping reassurances for more than two dozen states with similar bans, including South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other words, may schools determine eligibility for women\u2019s and girls\u2019 sports based on biological sex? The answer is yes,\u201d U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in his opinion.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, R-Edgefield, described the high court\u2019s decision as a \u201cstamp of approval\u201d for South Carolina\u2019s ban on transgender athletes in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=2431\">Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship in blow to Trump immigration agenda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<h2>Where does bathroom ban lawsuit stand?<\/h2>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>A South Carolina transgender teenager challenged a state policy banning students from using a school bathroom that doesn\u2019t align with his gender assigned at birth in 2024, when a one year budget item first passed.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel wrote in a July 2025 order how the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the transgender athlete case has \u201cthe potential of bringing clarity and providing guidance to this Court\u201d on the bathroom ban policy. Gergel put the South Carolina teenager\u2019s case on hold last summer until the U.S. Supreme Court determined West Virginia v. B.P.J., according to court filings.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>At issue was a one-year budget item prohibiting K-12 transgender students from using their preferred bathrooms in public schools. The policy was made permanent and expanded to colleges and universities this year by the General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The anonymous Berkeley County teenager left public high school due to harassment in October, according to his attorney. Still, his case in district court is active.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Gergel directed lawyers for South Carolina and the transgender teenager to file their opinions on how the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision impacts the bathroom ban case in the July 2025 order.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=2429\">Decker fires were set on purpose at prominent developers\u2019 vacant Columbia sites<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--]--><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court ruled similar laws constitutional, allowing South Carolina to bar transgender students from sports and affecting related school policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trans students can be kept out of sports, court says. 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