Lynch was taken prisoner for nine days in 2003 during the Iraq War.
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.
20 Women Soccer Players Withdraw From League Over Transgender Players Authored by Jim Birchall via The Epoch Times, Concerns over the physical safety of female-born football (soccer) players competing against transgender athletes have compelled at least 20 players to quit, according to a source from within a Sydney-based league. Calling itself the “biggest LGBTQIA+ women’s and non-binary football club in the world,” the Flying Bats FC has made international headlines for...
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A federal appeals court has voted to overturn West Virginia's law that bans transgender athletes from playing on teams consistent with their gender identity.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has overturned a West Virginia transgender sports ban, finding that the law violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools. The ruling Tuesday from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocks a West Virginia law banning transgender girls from playing []
According to the organizer, the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission, Capitol Square "will transform into a vibrant hub of activity, bursting with the sights and sounds of Virginia’s diverse communities" on the night of the event.
A federal court overturned a West Virginia law limiting transgender athletes to playing only in categories that match their birth gender.
On Sunday, advocates and families of people with intellectual disabilities rallied at the state capital in Charleston to protest a 10% budget cut to the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Waiver.
West Virginia's transgender sports ban violates the rights of a teen athlete under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools, an appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the law cannot be applied to a 13-year-old who has been taking puberty-blocking medication and publicly identified as a girl since she was in the third grade. In February 2023, the court had blocked the state's bid to kick Becky Pepper...
WHEELING, W.Va. (WTRF) - West Virginia State Senator Ryan Weld is firing back after a Political Action Committee (PAC), WV Family Foundation, accused him of protecting pedophiles in their most recent ad posted to Facebook. The ad claims Weld’s Senate Bill 616 that passed the legislature unanimously in 2022 protects the identity of convicted []
Angel Reese, a former Louisiana State University women’s basketball champion who was also a top pick in the WNBA draft, has weighed in on the debate over whether biological males should be allowed to compete against female athletes.