Republican governors urge justices to defend women's sports as Supreme Court hears key case
FIRST ON FOX: The nation's Republican governors are warning that women's sports are at risk as the Supreme Court hears a high-profile case over whether transgender athletes should be allowed...
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FIRST ON FOX : The nation's Republican governors are warning that women's sports are at risk as the Supreme Court hears a high-profile case over whether transgender athletes should be allowed to participate in girl's and women's sports. The statement from the GOP governors comes as the nation's highest court on Tuesday hears oral arguments from Idaho and West Virginia in defense of their laws to protect women's sports. "Recognizing the unique and inherent biological differences between men and women is not radical, it is commonsense," the Republican governors emphasized in a statement shared first with Fox News Digital. And the GOP governors argued, "Those trying to erase our unique differences and ignore biological reality are doing so in the name of ‘inclusivity.' Forcing women and girls to compete against men, with greater strength and speed, is the opposite of inclusive. It’s unfair. For generations, women fought for equal opportunity on the playing field and won over 50 years ago with the passage of Title IX, and now that right is at risk again." SUPREME COURT CASE ON PROTECTING WOMEN'S SPORTS SET FOR ORAL ARGUMENTS The Supreme Court justices will hear arguments in the cases from Idaho and West Virginia, where lower federal courts have blocked state laws that would prohibit transgender athletes from playing on female teams. The high court's ruling on the twin cases will likely determine whether the laws in Idaho and West Virginia , and similar measures in 27 other states, will stand. JUSTICE URGES ‘STAND UP FOR OUR GIRLS’ AS SUPREME COURT WEIGHS FATE OF HIS 'SAVE WOMEN’S SPORTS ACT' Lower courts have ruled that the bans discriminate "on the basis of sex" in violation of Title IX, which is a landmark civil rights law designed to promote equal opportunities for women and girls in sports, under the U.S. Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. But Idaho and West Virginia, in asking the Supreme Court to overturn the lower court rulings, argue that sex and gender id…