West Virginia Attorney General announced plans to appeal a recent 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision allowing a transgender middle school athlete to compete on girls' teams. The ruling found that the state's transgender sports ban violated Title IX rights of the athlete, who has been living as a girl for over five years and has been issued a female birth certificate.
The court's decision was in favor of the ACLU, Lambda Legal, and the West Virginia LGBTQ group, who sued the state after Governor Jim Justice signed the ban into law. The athlete, Becky Pepper Jackson, has been taking puberty-blocking medication and hormone therapy and has participated in girls' sports since elementary school.
