US Supreme Court to weigh transgender athlete bans

The conservative-dominated court is to hear challenges to state laws in Idaho and West Virginia banning transgender athletes from female competition. More than two dozen US states have passed laws in recent years barring athletes who were assigned as male at birth from taking part in girls' or women's sports. The Idaho case to be heard by the nine justices stems from the Republican-led state's 2020 "Fairness in Women's Sports Act." The act was challenged by a transgender athlete at an Idaho university...