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West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey vowed to support up the combat to support women’s and girls’ sports arsenic a transgender jock competing against girls successful the authorities championship.
Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 13-year-old freshman astatine Bridgeport Senior High School who has been the taxable of a Supreme Court lawsuit astir their information successful girls’ sports, finished successful 3rd spot successful the discus lawsuit and eighth successful the changeable enactment competition.
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West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey speaks during a quality league astatine the Health and Human Services Department connected April 22, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
As Pepper-Jackson took portion successful the meet, Morrisey urged officials to support abstracted scores.
"A lad is presently competing successful girls’ sports astatine the precocious schoolhouse authorities way conscionable successful West Virginia," Morrisey wrote connected Facebook. "It’s incorrect and unfair. I’m again urging officials to support abstracted scores truthful that the existent winners tin beryllium awarded erstwhile we triumph successful court.
"We volition not halt warring to support girls’ sports."
A national appeals tribunal blocked a West Virginia instrumentality that would person kept biologic males from competing against girls and women successful sports past year. The tribunal said the instrumentality cannot lawfully beryllium applied to a mediate school-aged trans miss who has been taking puberty-blocking medicine and has publically identified arsenic a miss since the 3rd grade.
West Virginia has since made an appeal to the Supreme Court regarding the appeals court’s ruling.
Becky Pepper-Jackson attends the Lambda Legal Liberty Awards connected June 8, 2023 successful New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Lambda Legal)
In 2023, Supreme Court justices refused to disturb an appeals tribunal bid that made it imaginable for the miss to proceed playing connected her mediate school’s way and cross-country teams.
As the West Virginia precocious schoolhouse way and tract moved into the postseason, Morrisey called connected coaches to fto athletes "take a stand" against transgender participating successful girls’ sports.
"I judge what is going connected close present successful West Virginia – with boys playing sports against girls – to beryllium abhorrent and contrary to law," helium wrote connected Facebook. "While we hold for the Supreme Court to contented their ruling successful this case, I’m calling connected each coaches progressive to fto these brave athletes instrumentality a basal for what is close without unfair punishment.
Patrick Morrisey speaks astatine a run lawsuit Oct. 22, 2018 successful Inwood, West Virginia. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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"As we each enactment toward removing the wrongly-decided injunction successful upcoming months, I inquire for each tourney officials to support a afloat acceptable of results truthful that existent winners of each lawsuit whitethorn beryllium recognized erstwhile the Supreme Court rules successful our favor."
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