Supreme Court Upholds 2 State Sports Bans in 6-3 Ruling as Title IX Fight Widens

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 9

A 6-3 Supreme Court ruling upheld Idaho and West Virginia laws barring males from girls' and women's sports, handing supporters of those restrictions a major legal victory.
Linda McMahon said the decision protects fairness, opportunities and locker-room safety for female athletes, while the Trump administration cast it as part of its Title IX enforcement push.
Stephanie Turner, the fencer black-carded in 2025 for refusing to face transgender opponent Redmond Sullivan, said a newly reported $5,000-per-semester women's scholarship for Sullivan validated her protest.
Sullivan had moved from Wagner's men's team to its women's team in 2024 and later lost the scholarship after Trump's executive order and the NCAA policy change limiting women's competition to biological females.
The ruling lands after USA Fencing and the NCAA tightened eligibility rules, but Turner said broader change still depends on more states passing their own bans.