West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey has once more promised to maintain preventing to guard women’ sports activities as a “transgender” organic boy competed towards women within the state observe championship.
A West Virginia legislation that banned boys and males from competing in feminine sports activities was blocked by a federal appeals courtroom. The state has filed an enchantment with the Supreme Court docket.
In a submit to Fb on Saturday, Morrisey wrote, “A boy is presently competing in women’ sports activities at the highschool state observe meet in West Virginia. It’s incorrect and unfair. I’m once more urging officers to maintain separate scores in order that the true winners might be awarded as soon as we win in courtroom.”
“We won’t cease preventing to guard women’ sports activities,” the governor continued.
The authorized battle towards the legislation was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and its West Virginia chapter on behalf of then-11-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, a organic boy who recognized as a woman and needed to play on feminine groups.
Morrisey’s submit was additionally about Pepper-Jackson, now 13, who completed in third place within the discus and eighth within the shot put, in response to a report from Fox Information.
Morrisey has additionally known as on coaches to permit women to protest towards boys competing towards them.
“I imagine what’s going on proper now in West Virginia – with boys taking part in sports activities towards women – to be abhorrent and opposite to legislation,” he beforehand wrote in a submit on Fb. “Whereas we anticipate the Supreme Court docket to challenge their ruling on this case, I’m calling on all coaches concerned to let these courageous athletes take a stand for what is true with out unfair punishment.
“As all of us work towards eradicating the wrongly-decided injunction in upcoming months, I ask for all event officers to maintain a full set of outcomes in order that true winners of every occasion could also be acknowledged when the Supreme Court docket guidelines in our favor.”
