Supreme Court allows trans girls to compete in West Virginia sports.
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The US Supreme Court has refused to intervene in a case involving West Virginia's law banning transgender girls from participating in girls' sports teams at school. The court's conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. The law was challenged by a 12-year-old middle school transgender girl named Becky Pepper-Jackson, who has lived as a girl since fourth grade. The ACLU, Lambda Legal, and private lawyers representing Becky and her mother, appealed the ruling and won a preliminary order from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that precludes the law being enforced while the appellate court considers her case.
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