Supreme Court urged to maintain hold on West Virginia's anti-trans sports ban by student athlete.

A transgender student athlete, Becky Pepper-Jackson, is urging the Supreme Court to not allow West Virginia to enforce its anti-trans sports ban, which prohibits transgender women and girls from participating in public school sports. The state had filed an emergency request to the court to wipe away a lower court decision. Pepper-Jackson's lawyers argued that the state's claim of being harmed by the appellate court's preliminary injunction against the law is unfounded. The ban has been enacted in several Republican-led states, with conservatives arguing that transgender women and girls have physical advantages over cisgender women and girls in sports, though research has found no direct or consistent evidence of such an advantage.