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Supreme Court upholds ban on transgender athletes competing in women's sports in West Virginia and Idaho
The Supreme Court also ruled that transgender bans in sports are not a violation of Title IX.
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The Supreme Court also ruled that transgender bans in sports are not a violation of Title IX.
President Trump on Tuesday praised the Supreme Court's decision allowing states to ban transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports. CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang reports.
The Supreme Court upheld state bans on transgender athletes in girls and women's sports on Tuesday. CBS News' Jared Hill reports and former U.S. gymnast Jennifer Sey joins CBS News with more.
The court decided 9-0 that the state laws do not violate the Title IX civil rights statute.
President Donald Trump, long an advocate of keeping trans athletes out of women's sports, called Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling a "big win."
US states like Idaho, West Virginia and two dozen other Republican-led states can now enforce measuresrequiring students to compete in public school and college teams according to their sex assigned at birth rather than their gender identity.
Trump called it a "big win" but a major LGBT campaign group described the ruling as "heartbreaking".