Leavitt swipes at SCOTUS justices over women’s sports hearing: ‘Alarming’ to hear debate on ‘biological fact’

‘OutKick’ host Riley Gaines questioned White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on sex-based rights and women’s sports protections, and Leavitt said the administration is already taking action.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized Supreme Court Justices for seemingly challenging biological differences between males and females during Tuesday’s hearing on saving women’s sports.

The Supreme Court heard two cases regarding transgender athletes in girls and women's sports, and justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson pressed state attorneys aiming to keep girls sports biologically female.

When asked by Riley Gaines during Thursday's briefing whether the administration is willing to take action against states that do not comply with the Supreme Court's potential ruling to save women's sports, Leavitt responded, "Absolutely."

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a news briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House Jan. 15, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"The administration … [has] taken action on a number of fronts against these states who are failing to uphold the president's executive orders and this administration's policy of simply protecting women and women's sports and women's private spaces. We've gone to the mat with large universities in this country, as well, to try to fight for what's right and what's just for women in this country.

"I think the president speaks on common sense on this issue, that women's sports and private spaces should be protected and that there are two genders, there are two sexes — that is not something we should be afraid to