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This week the Supreme Court took up two landmark fights over common sense and fairness in American life, hearing oral arguments on Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. — cases that will decide whether states can preserve women’s sports by drawing eligibility lines based on biological sex. The justices heard the arguments on January 13, 2026, and the stakes could not be higher for girls and young women who have fought for decades to win a place in school athletics.
At issue is whether state laws like Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act and West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act violate federal law by excluding biological males from female teams, or whether those laws are a reasonable enforcement of Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause to protect female athletes. Governors and state attorneys general defending these laws insist they are preserving the very purpose of Title IX — fairness and opportunity for girls — while challengers say the bans are discriminatory as applied.
Perhaps the most telling moment came when Justice Samuel Alito asked the question every honest person should be able to answer: what is a woman? The lawyer for the trans-identifying athletes stumbled and equivocated, confessing the court had no clear definition to work with, which exposed the entire ideological house of cards propped up by identity slogans. When our highest tribunal has to prod advocates to give a straight answer about sex, you know politics has elbowed reality off the field.
Other conservative justices pressed the practical harm: Brett Kavanaugh warned that this is often a zero-sum game where allowing a biological male to take a roster spot or a medal can mean a real, lasting loss for a girl who worked her whole life to compete. That is not cruelty; it is arithmetic and fairness, and the court’s skepticism about broad as-applied injunctions makes sense to anyone who believes in protecting women’s spaces. The arguments were not academic — they reflected the lived pain of female athletes who have already been displaced.
A decision in these cases will ripple through every state that has enacted similar protections; lawmakers in well over two dozen states have acted to safeguard sex-separated sports, and the Court’s ruling — expected by summer 2026 — will either affirm the right of states to make these distinctions or constitutionalize a radical redefinition of sex across public life. Parents, coaches, and athletes are right to watch closely: this is about the future of girls’ sports and whether biological reality still matters in American law.
Americans who believe in fairness, hard work, and the dignity of women should be unapologetic about defending women’s sports. This is not bigotry; it is loyalty to a principle that made women’s athletics possible in the first place. If the Court remembers that law is supposed to protect the vulnerable, not erase them for the sake of a fashionable ideology, then young girls will keep the playing field they earned — and the country will be the better for it.
