Five West Virginia middle school athletes have been banned from all future competitions after protesting the participation of a transgender student in shot put.
The five Lincoln Middle School students refused to compete against Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 13-year-old biological male who identifies as a transgender girl, during an April 18 shot put competition,
Pepper-Jackson is undergoing gender reassignment measures, including puberty-blocking medication and estrogen hormone therapy. The transgender student-athlete was allowed to compete on April 18 due to being free of current state protection for girls’ sports as an eighth-grader, the report noted. After the girls’ refusal to compete against the student, they were barred from future competition by the Harrison County Board of Education, which is now being sued on behalf of the girls by West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.
Morrisey is seeking to have the Supreme Court weigh on the participation of transgender student-athletes for a second time, according to the report.Rather than banning the boy from girls sports, they ban the girls from girls sports. You can't make this stuff up.“Rather than banning the boy from girls sports, they ban the girls from girls sports. You can’t make this stuff up,” Gaines wrote. “Sue them into oblivion.
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