Middle schoolers who protested trans athlete’s participation are banned from future competitions
By: Becky Pepper-Jackson (New York Post)
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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.
Becky Pepper-Jackson, 13, won a track and field event earlier this month that five of her classmates protested. American Civil Liberties Union
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.
"Their actions at the earlier track meet were not disruptive or aggrandizing. They were the quiet demonstration of the student-athletes' evident unhappiness with the competitive consequences of a federal appellate court's decision," Morrisey, a Republican currently primarying for governor, wrote in the amicus brief filed April 26.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed a lawsuit against the school board after the five protesting girls were barred from future competitions. AP
Joined by one of Becky's classmates on Wednesday, Morrisey said he plans to ask the US Supreme Court to hear the case involving the state's restrictions on transgender student-athletes for a second time.
Former collegiate swimmer-turned-activist Riley Gaines, who has been an outspoken critic of trans athletes participating in girls' sporting events, has weighed in on the issue, writing, "These girls stood up for what they believed and their coach barred them from competing. Insane" in a post on X on Monday.
Morrisey quote-tweeted Gaines' message, noting he plans to do "everything in my power to defend these brave young girls."
"This is just wrong. We must stand for what's right and oppose these radical trans policies. Thanks to @Riley_Gaines_ for her leadership on this critical issue."
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And the school administrators see nothing wrong with this.
Plain fucking ridiculous.
They are nothing more than radical activists.
They don't even know the difference between right and wrong. How are they going to educate.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed a lawsuit against the school board after the five protesting girls were barred from future competitions.
Shame it has to come to this.
I agree but I am glad they are fighting the stupid.
Something that the print article misses, you have to view the imbedded video to find it. The trans winner beat all other throws by 3 feet.
I'm sure by now many here think I'm wearing tin foil hats but as I keep telling everyone, this is intentional. The forces trying to tear down Western values and civilization, starting after WWII, introduced ideologies based on clever sounding words and arguments that were themselves based on nothing. The goal was to sew so much confusion concerning reality and morality that we get what we have today. They literally promote that everyone gets to have their own truth in our colleges. The result? America today, so lost in competing ideologies based on nothing that no one can see what's simple common sense. This can be laid at the feet of Marxists, postmodernists, moral relativism and the like.
I think there is going to be growing opposition to this gender madness, particularly of Trump wins and the Republicans gain control of both House and Senate. The first thing would be to reverse Biden's gutting of Title IX, making gender identity a protected class. These young women are to be commended for refusing to participate in these compromised competitions. It would a real impact if more and more girls and young women refuse to play these rigged games.
Let's hope so.