West Virginia Legislature, Trump administration also file briefs
By Steven Allen Adams, Parkersburg News and Sentinel
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 an 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 Congresswoman Carol Miller, and 2nd District Congressman Riley Moore.
“Women’s sports should remain just that — women’s sports. West Virginia has a proud tradition of female athletes who deserve a level playing field, and I’m proud to stand with my colleagues in defending that principle — something I’ve long championed,” Capito said in a statement Friday.
