24 states' attorneys general call on Supreme Court to keep biological boys out of girls sports

Attorneys wide from 24 states are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a little tribunal ruling and uphold an Arizona instrumentality to prohibit biologic boys from competing connected girls' sports teams.

The petition comes aft a national appeals tribunal ruled that the instrumentality apt violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.

"Sports teams are divided by enactment to statesman with to springiness girls a level playing tract truthful they’re not competing against boys," South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said successful a quality release. "Arizona’s instrumentality restricting girls’ sports teams to biologic females is conscionable communal sense, and it protects girls from competing against bigger, stronger males who place arsenic females."

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In summation to Wilson, the attorneys wide supporting the petition are those from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming.

The petition notes that these states have laws akin to Arizona's that restrict girls' sports to biologic females.

It besides argues that the Equal Protection Clause does not prohibit states from offering abstracted sports teams for men, women, boys and girls.

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The U.S. Supreme Court successful Washington, D.C., connected Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"In sports, adjacent entree means a level playing field," the attorneys wide constitute successful their brief. "And a level playing tract usually means sports teams divided by enactment truthful that girls tin vie against different girls."

"Basing the favoritism connected biology alternatively than sex individuality makes consciousness due to the fact that it is the differences successful biology—not sex identity—that telephone for abstracted teams successful the archetypal place: Whatever their sex identity, biologic males are, connected average, stronger and faster than biologic females. If those mean carnal differences did not matter, determination would beryllium nary request to segregate sports teams astatine all," they continued.

The petition argues that the Equal Protection Clause does not prohibit states from offering abstracted sports teams for men, women, boys and girls. (ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)

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The attorneys wide are asking the high court to "make it wide that the Constitution does not prohibit states from redeeming women’s sports from unfair contention and providing meaningful diversion opportunities for girls and women," according to Wilson’s quality release.