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West Virginia v. B. P. J. · ¶84

The plaintiffs characterize their equal protection argument in three overlapping ways—(i) as a lack of substantial relationship between the law’s biological-sex classification and the State’s interests in safety and competitive fairness; (ii) as an as-applied challenge to the biological-sex classification; and (iii) as discrimination against transgender athletes. Under this Court’s precedents, none of those three arguments succeeds.
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