The Fourth Circuit Court’s ruling to block a West Virginia law banning transgender student-athletes from playing on teams consistent with their gender identity is “deeply disturbing,” West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey told Newsmax on Thursday.
“This is a deeply disturbing ruling because I think that the Fourth Circuit just got it completely wrong,” the Republican official, who is running for governor, told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “We know that in America, there has been separation on the basis of sports for a very long time. People know about Title IX and the effort to try to afford equal opportunities to women.”
The case was based on a 2021 law that bars transgender student-athletes from participating on teams consistent with their gender identity. The lawsuit was filed in May 2021 by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of West Virginia, and Lambda Legal on behalf of a 12-year-old transgender girl who would not be allowed to participate in her middle school’s track and field team, according to the ACLU.
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