SCOTUS defense in cases to protect women's sports gets support from 27 state attorneys general

Former NCAA athletes Lainey Armistead and Madison Kenyon talk to Fox News Digital about how they ended up in a lawsuit to protect women's sports in a case that's now going all the way to the Supreme Court.

EXCLUSIVE: Attorneys general from 27 states and the U.S. Territory of Guam have signed onto amicus briefs to support the defense in a forthcoming Supreme Court case to protect women's sports from transgender athlete inclusion. 

The Supreme Court agreed in July to review state bans on transgender athletes participating in public school sports. The two cases it will hear, Little vs. Hecox in Idaho and BPJ vs. West Virginia, focused on state laws that prevent biological males from competing on girls’ and women's sports teams. 

The plaintiffs in the cases, transgender athletes, sought to bypass those laws while the defendants, state authorities in West Virginia and Idaho, seek to uphold the laws. 

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Now, the AGs from Arkansas, Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming, and the U.S. Territory of Guam are all throwing their support behind the defendants, as seen in copies of the briefs obtained by Fox News Digital.

The AGs from Idaho and West Virginia only signed the briefs for the case that is not based in their state, as they are already a defendant in the case within their state. 

"At the heart of these cases is a fundamental question: can states uphold laws that preserve fairness and opportunity for female athletes? The answer must be yes. Across the