Attorneys representing a transgender student athlete in Harrison County, West Virginia have filed their argument in a U.S. Supreme Court challenge of a state law that prohibits her from participating in her school’s track program.

Attorneys for 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson filed the response with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. She’s challenging West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sport Act, which former Gov. Jim Justice signed into law in 2021. Pepper-Jackson is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of West Virginia, Lambda Legal, and Cooley LLP.

The Supreme Court announced in July it would hear the state of West Virginia’s appeal of a Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that blocked the law. The lower court found that the law violates transgender students’ rig

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