Supreme Court Deals Major Defeat To Biden Administration Over Men Competing In Women's Sports

The Supreme Court voted 5-4 Friday to reject an emergency request from the Biden Administration that sought to enforce new Title IX guidelines that would have created additional perks for transgender students.

If granted, the request would have allowed biological men to access women's bathrooms, locker rooms and dorms in 10 states where lawmakers have prohibited such conduct. The Biden Administration announced the sweeping changes in April and argued that Title IX's ban on "sex" discrimination in schools applies to discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation and "pregnancy or related conditions."

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After the law took effect on August 1, more than two-dozen Republican attorneys general sued the administration and argued that it would conflict with laws that prevent biological men from competing in women's sports, which have been passed by several states. The Biden Administration argued that the new ruling would not apply to athletics, though experts have presented evidence to the contrary.

On Friday, the Supreme Court dealt the Biden Administration a major defeat and rolled back the sweeping changes.

"On this limited record and in its emergency applications, the Government has not provided this Court a sufficient basis to disturb the lower courts' interim conclusions that the three provisions found likely to be unlawful are intertwined with and affect other provisions of the rule," the court wrote.

Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch dissented with his ideologically aligned colleagues and agreed with the court's three liberal justices in arguing that lower court rulings on the matter were overly broad.

Earlier this week, a group of 102 female athletes petitioned the Supreme Court to rule on a challenge to state laws banning biological men from women's sports. Petitioners pointed to biological strength differences that make fair competition impossible.

"A growing number of women and girls have been facing the humiliating and damaging experience of being forced to compete against males who identify as transgender in the women's sports category," reads a filing obtained by the Washington Times.

"It is hard to express the pain, humiliation, frustration and shame women experience when they are forced to compete against males in sport. It is public shaming and suffering, an exclusion from women's own category."

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