On Tuesday, June 30, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the rights of West Virginia and Idaho to ban transgender women, who are biological males, from competing in women’s sports. In a ruling that covered both West Virginia v. B. P. J. and Little v. Hecox, the Court decided six to three that neither Title IX nor the Equal Protection Clause are violated by states that do not allow transgender-identifying student athletes to compete on teams contrary to their sex.1 This importantly affirms the distinction between men and women that God established in Genesis.
The two state laws under attack were Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act and West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act. Both laws banned males from female sports in the education system: elementary through college in Idaho and public secondary schools and colleges in West Virginia. Upholding the law in Idaho was significant because it was the first state to pass this kind of law back in 2020. This decision has set a new precedent that validates laws protecting women’s sports, both in the 27 states that currently have such laws and other states that could follow suit.1
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote concerning the decision,
Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immutable “biological” characteristic . . . it is binary; and “man” and “woman,” “boy” and “girl,” are the terms that correspond to adults and children of each sex. . . . To use language to obscure reality—to show “indifference regarding the truth”—is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens “as equal[s].”2
Today’s culture is rife with attacks on the foundations of God’s created order, and this ruling pushes back. The sanctity of life, marriage, and the distinction between men and women are being flipped and twisted into mockeries of God’s good and wise intentions. That is why many sensible citizens in general and Christians in particular are thankful that the top judges in America have made a decision that aligns both with biological and biblical reality.
God established in the very first chapters of Genesis the distinction between men and women, and this is carried throughout the rest of Scripture. Genesis 1:27 states, “So God created man in His own image . . . male and female He created them.” Genesis 2 ends with a detailed account of the creation of man and woman and how they complement each other. At the end of the sixth creation day, the Lord said everything He had made was “very good” (Genesis 1:31).
This shows that this was His perfect design. When someone claims they were born in the wrong body, the implication is that God made a mistake. But Psalm 139:13 says, “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.” God is that One that creates us—soul and body, and He never makes mistakes.
In the Old Testament, He gave the Israelites laws that upheld the distinctions between men and women (e.g., Deuteronomy 22:5 and Leviticus 18:22). New Testament passages like Romans 1:26–28 and 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 condemn men and women who forsake natural relations, and this relies on the biological differences between the sexes that were established back in Genesis. And since Genesis sets the stage for why Jesus had to come and redeem us, it is all the more important to affirm and validate the truth found there, both in the church and in the public square.
References
- Howe, A. Court Rules That States Can Exclude Transgender Athletes from Girls’ and Women’s Sports Teams. SCOTUSblog. Posted on scotusblog.com June 30, 2026, accessed July 1, 2026.
- West Virginia v. B. P. J. 609 U. S. 1 (2026).
