WASHINGTON D.C. — Independent Women’s Law Center (IWLC) and a coalition of 52 other amici filed an amicus brief in Bradley Little, Governor of Idaho v. Lindsay Hecox, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act. This comes after lower courts blocked the law from taking effect.
To address the injustice of male athletes taking the place of their female competitors, the Idaho legislature enacted the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, which ensures that women and girls do not have to compete against men and boys, no matter how those men and boys identify. Shockingly, the Ninth Circuit didn’t agree, and stopped the law from going into effect, holding that the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause requires allowing men in women’s sports.
May Mailman, Independent Women’s Law Center director, said: “Women and girls deserve fair athletic competition, and we need to continue to fight the Left’s radical agenda that ultimately will erase women and girls from sports. The high court’s review is urgently needed to preserve the equal playing field women have fought for decades to secure.”
Beth Parlato, senior legal advisor for Independent Women’s Law Center, said, “It is an obvious truth that women and men are biologically different. Allowing men to compete in women’s sports takes away athletic and educational opportunities for women, invades their privacy, and heightens the risk of injury to female athletes. This is illogical, and IWLC will continue its fight in protecting women’s spaces that are in the throes of vanishing.”
IWLC’s brief can be found here.
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