Jim Justice Urges Nationwide Transgender Sports Law After Supreme Court Backs 29 States
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 2
Jim Justice Urges Nationwide Transgender Sports Law After Supreme Court Backs 29 States
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 2
Summary
Sen. Jim Justice said Congress should make restrictions on transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports a national standard after the Supreme Court upheld laws in West Virginia and Idaho.
The rulings in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox left policy to the states rather than creating a nationwide rule, even as 29 states now have similar laws on the books.
West Virginia's 2021 Save Women's Sports Act — signed by Justice when he was governor — requires female teams at public schools and colleges to be based on biological sex after years of litigation.
Justice has already backed federal action by cosponsoring Sen. Tommy Tuberville's S.9, but the bill stalled in March 2025 after failing to reach the 60 Senate votes needed to advance.
The push now lands amid ongoing Trump administration fights with California and Maine over transgender athlete policies, underscoring that the legal and political battle remains unsettled nationally.