CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s entire congressional delegation signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the state’s law banning transgender girls and women from participating in sports for biological girls and women.

Forty-eight Republican members of Congress – 15 U.S. Senators and 33 members of the U.S. House of Representatives – filed a amici curiae brief Friday with the U.S. Supreme Court for two cases dealing with banning transgender girls and women from participating in middle school, high school and college girl’s/women’s sports: Hecox v. Little, and West Virginia v. B.P.J.

The amici curiae brief – also called a friend-of-the-court brief – included West Virginia’s two U.S. Senators and two House members: U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice, 1st District Congr

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