The three liberal justices on the Supreme Court, all females, have been accused of ‘hating women’ after dissenting from a landmark decision which allows trans athletes to be banned from girls’ and women’s sports in public schools.
The ruling overturned decisions by lower courts that sided with trans students who challenged bans in Idaho and West Virginia as violating the Constitution and a federal anti-discrimination law.
In Tuesday’s decision, the court unanimously agreed that barring trans people from school sports did not violate Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education.
But justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson opposed the conservative majority’s ruling based on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
‘The people who claim to champion women’s rights just voted AGAINST women’s and girls’ protections in sports,’ popular right-wing influencer Libs of TikTok wrote on X after the decision was released.
‘Democrats hate women. Never forget.’
‘The party of women votes against women,’ South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace wrote on X. ‘You can’t make this stuff up.’
Conservative activist Riley Gaines, who competed against a trans athlete as an NCAA swimmer, blasted the liberal dissent on X.
Sonia Sotomayor (L), Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Elena Kagan (R) dissented in the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision on state bans of trans-identifying athletes
‘Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor ruled against women having equal protection under the law,’ she wrote. ‘Liberal women, yet again, prove to be the biggest hurdle women face.’
Author Michael Rothman said in a post lauding the conservative majority’s decision: ‘Three female justices voted to let biological males take medals, scholarships, and podiums from girls.’
Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas concurred with the majority opinion, writing: ‘Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are.’
The primary case before the court was a suit brought by a trans athlete in West Virginia, seeking to overturn the state’s ban on biological males in girls’ and women’s sports.
West Virginia’s ban dates to April 2021, but was blocked three years later by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The dissent, authored by Sotomayor, acknowledged that the conservative majority was largely correct in rejecting the athlete’s Title IX claims.
But she argued that the Court needed to give the West Virginia athlete more time to pursue arguments related to the Equal Protection clause.
‘In an opinion unencumbered by fact or law,’ Sotomayor wrote scathingly, ‘the majority today cuts off that process prematurely.’
Conservative figures such as Riley Gaines blasted the liberal female justices for their dissent
The liberal dissent was authored by Sotomayor
President Donald Trump celebrated the ruling, posting on Truth Social: ‘BIG WIN: The United States Supreme Court just RULED AGAINST MEN PLAYING IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. Wow! That takes that ridiculous situation off the table!!!’
Conservative gender policies were an important part of Trump’s 2024 reelection campaign.
