Sen. Jim Justice calls for national law protecting women's sports

Key Points:

• Sen. Jim Justice of West Virginia is urging Congress to enact nationwide legislation restricting transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports, following a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding such state laws.
• The Supreme Court's decisions in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox upheld laws from West Virginia and Idaho that require female sports teams to be based on biological sex, but did not establish a federal standard, leaving states to set their own policies.
• Justice, who signed West Virginia's "Save Women's Sports Act" in 2021 and has cosponsored federal legislation on the issue, emphasized protecting opportunities for female athletes and criticized states like California for allowing transgender participation in women's sports.
• Despite the Supreme Court ruling, legal battles continue in Democratic-led states such as California and Maine, where the Trump administration has challenged policies permitting transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports.
• Justice invited families to move to states like West Virginia and Idaho, promoting their policies as "commonsense" and expressing pride in West Virginia's approach to protecting women's sports.