SHINNSTON, WV: "Five West Virginia middle schoolers who protested a transgender athlete’s participation in a track and field competition have been barred from future meets, prompting the state attorney general to ask the US Supreme Court to weigh in on transgender student-athlete bans for a second time. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed a lawsuit against the Harrison County Board of Education on the dissenting students’ behalf after they were blocked from upcoming meets following their protests at the April 18 shot put competition, West Virginia Watch reported.
Five girls from Lincoln Middle School stepped up to the circle for their turn before refusing to throw in the event, which was won by Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 13-year-old girl who takes puberty-blocking medication and estrogen hormone therapy. While West Virginia law bans transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams, a recent federal appeals court ruled that the law couldn’t lawfully be applied to the eighth-grader.
Judge Toby Heytens wrote that offering her a “choice” between not participating in sports and participating only on boys’ teams “is no real choice at all.” Despite the ruling, Morrisey has rallied against both the ruling and the treatment of the student-athletes who protested competing against Becky."
https://nypost.com/2024/04/30/us-news/middle-schoolers-who-protested-trans-athletes-participation-banned-from-future-competitions/