West Virginia Law Restricting Sports by Biological Sex Is Constitutional: Judge

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West Virginia law that prohibits people from participating on single-sex sports teams that donโ€™t match their biological sex is constitutional, a judge ruled on Jan. 5.

West Virginia House Bill 3293 (pdf), or the Save Womenโ€™s Sports Bill, was passed by the state legislature and signed by Gov. Jim Justice in 2021. The bill states that there are โ€œinherent differences between biological males and biological femalesโ€ and that โ€œbiological males would displace females to a substantial extent if permitted to compete on teams designated for biological females, as recognized in Clark v. Ariz. Interscholastic Assโ€™n (9th Cir. 1982).โ€

The bill says that a person born male cannot participate in female sports, and vice versa.

A biological male child with the initials B.P.J., who was 11 at the time, filed a lawsuit after the lawโ€™s passage. B.P.J. identifies as female and wanted to participate in female sports at a middle school, but administrators cited the new law in blocking the youth from doing so.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in West Virginia, claimed that biological male children who identify as female are being discriminated against โ€œon the basis of sex and transgender statusโ€ in violation of the U.S. Constitution and Title IX, including the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which says that no state may deny a person within its jurisdiction โ€œequal protection of the laws.โ€

U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin, a Clinton appointee, disagreed, ruling Thursday that โ€œacting to prevent transgender girls, along with all other biological males, from playing on girlsโ€™ teams is not unconstitutional if the classification is substantially related to an important government interest.โ€

Goodwin later noted that males are generally better at sports due to โ€œinherent physical differences between the sexesโ€ related in part to males having higher levels of testosterone beginning with puberty, which B.P.J.โ€™s filings recognized.

โ€œThis is not an overbroad generalization, but rather a general principle that realistically reflects the average physical differences between the sexes,โ€ the judge wrote in his 23-page ruling, which threw out the case. โ€œGiven B.P.J.โ€™s concession that circulating testosterone in males creates a biological difference in athletic performance, I do not see how I could find that the stateโ€™s classification based on biological sex is not substantially related to its interest in providing equal athletic opportunities for females.โ€

Byย Zachary Stieber

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