THE Supreme Court yesterday ruled that a West Virginia ban on transgender girls participating on female sports teams will not go into effect while a suit over the matter makes its way through the US court system.
The plaintiff, 12-year-old trans student Becky Pepper-Jackson, will be allowed to keep running with her middle school female track teammates for the time being, following a seven-to-two vote by the high court’s justices, in a decision that did not address the merits of the case.