West Virginia Governor Jim Justice responded to a question on Tuesday regarding if he would allow a transgender basketball player on his girl's basketball team after a court overturned West Virginia's transgender sports ban. "To me it's a straight forward as straight forward can be. Boys competing with the girls, puts girls at a significant []
West Virginia infielder Grant Hussey acknowledges congratulations for his
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Trans teen Maelle Jacques, who was born a male and previously won a girl's high jump state championship , said she didn't join female sports to win outright.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has issued another ruling striking down a West Virginia law, this time the state Medicaid Program's decision not to cover certain surgeries for the purpose of gender affirmation.
A transgender middle school athlete won a shot put competition in West Virginia last week, as a slew of female competitors refused to throw and walked off the pitch in protest.
The state's attorney general and Alliance Defending Freedom plan to keep fighting to protect women and girls.
Twenty-five states have approved measures barring transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s scholastic sports, but West Virginia could become the first to have its law taken up by the Supreme Court.
A federal appeals court has struck down a West Virginia law protecting the fairness of school athletics. In 2021, West Virginia passed the "Save Women's Sports Act," becoming one of the first states in the United States to protect the fairness of sports. The law requires that every student athlete must participate on the team or in the event congruent with their "biological sex as indicated on the athlete’s original birth certificate issued at the time of birth." The law doesn't ban...
Megan Rapinoe has been branded 'shameful' by Piers Morgan for her involvement in a letter to NCAA urging them not to ban trans athletes competing in women's sports.
Transgender athlete wins shot put by more than three feet as middle school girls protest and refuse to compete - just days after she won the court battle to overturn West Virginia's transgender laws - A transgender athlete from West Virginia won her shot put competition in her first sporting event after an appeals court ruling allowed her to compete - because other participants refused to compete against her.Becky Pepper-Jackson, 13, competed in the Harris County Middle School track and field...
A federal judge has ruled that a $1 billion lawsuit filed by the network of businesses owned by Gov. Jim Justice and his family against their longtime banker should be transferred to the Western District of Virginia. U.S. District Judge Frank Volk of the Southern District of West Virginia filed the order today. Carter Bank