A federal appeals court ruled in favor of a transgender teenager who sued West Virginia over the state’s law barring trans athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams in public schools and colleges.
In a 2-1 ruling Tuesday, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Becky Pepper-Jackson, 13, a who argued that the law prevented her from running on the girls’ cross-country and track teams at her middle school.
The federal appeals court, which is based in Richmond, Virginia, concluded that the state legislation violated Title IX, a federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools or education programs that receive funding from the federal government.
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