As The Supreme Court Takes Up Key Cases, Time May Be Running Out On Biological Males Dominating Female Sports
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# As The Supreme Court Takes Up Key Cases, Time May Be Running Out On Biological Males Dominating Female Sports
By Decision Magazine
__September 3, 2025
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Time may be running out on biological males dominating female sports.
In early June, Nebraska became the 29th state to ban males from participating in girls’ school sports. A month later, the University of Pennsylvania announced it will no longer allow men to compete in women’s sports. The private Ivy League university also agreed with the federal Department of Education to restore records set on the women’s swim team to the females who rightly earned them.
Then about 48 hours later, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases during its upcoming session, October through June, concerning laws in Idaho and West Virginia that protect women’s privacy, safety and equal opportunity in athletic competition. And in late July, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee banned male athletes from competing in women’s sports, yielding to President Donald Trump’s executive order “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” which was issued in February.
Better late than never. Since 2008, SheWon.org has chronicled 2,242 female athletes losing out on 3,126 medals to males in 1,311 competitions in 46 sports. At press time, the website had tallied almost 900 first-place finishes in women’s competitions that have been stolen by males who identify as transgender females.
From 2017 through 2019, two Connecticut male athletes who identified as female took 15 women’s high school state championship titles that were previously held by nine different girls.
In 2020, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) helped the Idaho state legislature pass the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act into law, the first such legislation of its kind to protect equal opportunities for girls and women.
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