Alan Wilson urges Supreme Court to uphold state laws on sex based participation in sports

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(WCIV) — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson voiced support for two cases before the U.S Supreme Court on Tuesday, challenging the policies allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports.

The cases — involving laws from Idaho and West Virginia — could “make women’s sports fair and safe again,” Wilson said, arguing that participation should be based on what he describes as “biological reality.” The Supreme Court heard arguments in both cases earlier in the day.

“For too long, biological men have been allowed to participate in female competitions, all in the name of leftist gender ideology,” Wilson said in a statement. He urged the justices to uphold the state laws, which restrict sports participation to athletes whose assigned sex at birth matches the category in which they compete.

“I have been on the front lines of these battles,” Wilson said, “I joined 27 other attorneys general in filing two friend-of-the-court briefs to ask the Supreme Court to rule on this issue of fairness and basic biology.”

He also pointed to South Carolina’s own law establishing sex-based distinctions in school sports and said his office has challenged federal regulations that would override those protections.

“As the dad of a daughter, I want her to enter the playing field without diminished opportunity,” Wilson said. He praised the Court for agreeing to hear the cases and said he hopes the rulings will “re-establish common sense” in women’s athletics nationwide.