(Washington) The American Supreme Court, majority of conservative, said Thursday that it was going to seize two disputes on the presence of transgender athletes in female sports teams, a hot topic in the United States.
The high court, regularly led to decide on major social issues, will look between next October and summer 2026, on laws of two republican states which prohibited people assigned to male sex at the birth of joining female teams.
Two weeks ago, the conservative majority of the Court allowed the state of Tennessee to prohibit transgender minors with access to transitional treatments, believing that this measure did not present discriminatory.
It has also temporarily authorized the government of Donald Trump to exclude transgender people from the army.
Since coming to power in January, the American president has put an end to the advances in the rights of trans persons in society. From his inauguration, he proclaimed that there are only “two sexes, male and female”, and only one “biological truth”.
The 79 -year -old billionaire then threatened to cut federal subsidies to organizations that let transgender athletes participate in women’s competitions.
It is also under pressure from his government that the prestigious University of Pennsylvania undertook on Tuesday to no longer accept transgender athletes in its women’s teams.
It was within this university that Lia Thomas evolved, the first transgender swimmer to win, in 2022, a university title in the United States. Its results had triggered a lively controversy, its detractors believing that having competed as a man in the past, it benefited from an unjust physiological advantage.
The Supreme Court is now grasped by two cases.
The first concerns a law of Idaho that a state university managed to block in court, saying that it violates an anti-discrimination clause of the Constitution.
The second relates to a law of Virginia-Western, deemed illegal by a court of appeal.
The Supreme Court is expected to make a decision on this subject by the summer of 2026.
