Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed two amicus briefs last week concerning public schools’ policies surrounding transgender athletes.

Led by Marshall and Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, the briefs urge the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in favor of two laws mandating public school sports teams be separated by the biological sex players are assigned at birth.

The briefs, signed by 26 additional attorneys general, were filed for the cases Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. In each case, plaintiffs have challenged respective laws enacted in Idaho and West Virginia, seeking to separate public school sports participation by biological sex.

The Ninth Court of Appeals held that Idaho’s law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment in an August 2023 ruling

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