White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Trans athletes saw 2 victories last week, but will it last? LISA KEEN | Keen News Servicelisakeen@mac.com Transgender athletes saw two significant victories last week: one from the conservative U.S.
Supreme Court and the other from the LGBTQ-friendly White House of President Joe Biden. The events triggered a flood of national media attention and found lesbian tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the side of those wishing to bar transgender females from participating in female sporting events.
Neither of the two developments changes any law at this time, but both represent powerful pushbacks against a wave of hostile legislation in many states.
The Supreme Court vote announced on April 6 temporarily stops a recently-passed ban on competition by trans athletes in West Virginia schools.