West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey has again promised to keep fighting to protect girls’ sports as a “transgender” biological boy competed against girls in the state track championship.
A West Virginia law that banned boys and men from competing in female sports was blocked by a federal appeals court. The state has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court.
In a post to Facebook on Saturday, Morrisey wrote, “A boy is currently competing in girls’ sports at the high school state track meet in West Virginia. It’s wrong and unfair. I’m again urging officials to keep separate scores so that the true winners can be awarded once we win in court.”
“We will not stop fighting to protect girls’ sports,” the governor continued.
The legal battle against the law was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and its West Virginia chapter on behalf of then-11-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, a biological boy who identified as a girl and wanted to play on female teams.
Morrisey’s post was also about Pepper-Jackson, now 13, who finished in third place in the discus and eighth in the shot put, according to a report from Fox News.
Morrisey has also called on coaches to allow girls to protest against boys competing against them.
“I believe what is going on right now in West Virginia – with boys playing sports against girls – to be abhorrent and contrary to law,” he previously wrote in a post on Facebook. “While we wait for the Supreme Court to issue their ruling in this case, I’m calling on all coaches involved to let these brave athletes take a stand for what is right without unfair punishment.
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“As we all work toward removing the wrongly-decided injunction in upcoming months, I ask for all tournament officials to keep a full set of results so that true winners of each event may be recognized when the Supreme Court rules in our favor.”
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