South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is taking a firm stance against a Colorado school district’s policy that allows students to be assigned roommates on field trips and sporting events based on their gender identity rather than their biological sex.
A federal district court initially dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Colorado policy. In response, Attorney General Wilson joined a 21-state friend-of-the-court brief supporting the appeal of that dismissal.
The brief argues that the lower court’s ruling unjustly treats Christians holding traditional views on human sexuality as second-class citizens. Furthermore, the attorneys general contend that the school district’s policy relies on discredited guidelines regarding pediatric gender dysphoria.
Attorneys general from Florida, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming, and the state legislature of Arizona, joined Wilson on the brief.
This effort is consistent with Attorney General Wilson’s previous actions regarding gender and sports participation. In September, he and 27 other states petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to permit states to pass laws that protect girls’ sports by requiring that all participants be biological females.
In 2022, the South Carolina legislature passed the Save Women’s Sports Act. This law mirrors measures in other states like West Virginia and Idaho, requiring that sports teams be classified based on a student’s biological sex at birth rather than gender identity. West Virginia and Idaho’s similar laws were previously blocked by the Fourth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals, respectively.
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