West Virginia v. B. P. J. · ¶133

Put simply, it is a mistake to assume that, just because firing someone in part because of his biological sex amounts to unlawful discrimination in violation of Title VII, sponsoring a single-sex sports team limited to biological women or girls must also amount to unlawful discrimination in violation of Title IX. It’s a point Bostock took care to underscore. As we put it, while “[f]iring employees because of a statutorily protected trait surely counts” as unlawful discrimination under Title VII, the question “[w]hether other policies and practices might or might not qualify as unlawful discrimination” under Title VII itself or other provisions of law cannot be simply assumed but must be assessed with reference to the policies in question and according to the relevant law’s terms. 590 U. S., at 681; see also ibid. (stressing that policies concerning “sex-segregated bathrooms, locker…

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