Reps for transgender athlete, 12, urge SCOTUS to dismiss state's emergency filing: 'Petty and baseless'

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Lawyers and representatives for a West Virginia transgender girl asked the Supreme Court on Monday to reject an emergency application from state lawmakers that allow for student-athletes to only play sports with and against those of their biological gender.

Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 12-year-old transgender girl who has reportedly been under puberty-delaying treatments and estrogen hormone therapy, has been looking to compete and run with members of the girls cross-country team at her middle school.

"This emergency filing by Attorney General (Patrick) Morrisey is a petty and baseless move," the ACLU, ACLU of West Virginia and Lambda Legal wrote in a statement, via Courthouse News Service. "Requests of this kind are typically reserved for high-stakes, time-sensitive matters — including pending death sentences and matters of national security. A 12-year-old girl playing with her peers is hardly an emergency, and we urge the court to deny the state’s request."

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Jim Justice, owner of the Greenbrier Resort, speaks to the gallery after Stuart Appleby's victory at the Greenbrier Classic on Aug. 1, 2010 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. (Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images)

Becky said in a statement last spring that she was not a boy and insisted she ran with the girls team.

"I am not a boy. I do not want to run with the boys when there is a girls’ team and I should not have to run with the boys when there is a girls’ team. Running with the girls means a lot to me because I am a girl, and I should be treated like a girl, just like all my friends who are girls," the statement read,