West Virginia gov vows to protect women's sports as trans athlete competes for girls' state championship

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West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey vowed to keep up the fight to protect women’s and girls’ sports as a transgender athlete competing against girls in the state championship.

Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 13-year-old freshman at Bridgeport Senior High School who has been the subject of a Supreme Court case about their participation in girls’ sports, finished in third place in the discus event and eighth in the shot put competition.

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West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey speaks during a news conference at the Health and Human Services Department on April 22, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

As Pepper-Jackson took part in the meet, Morrisey urged officials to keep separate scores.

"A boy is currently competing in girls’ sports at the high school state track meet in West Virginia," Morrisey wrote on Facebook. "It’s wrong and unfair. I’m again urging officials to keep separate scores so that the true winners can be awarded once we win in court. 

"We will not stop fighting to protect girls’ sports."

A federal appeals court blocked a West Virginia law that would have kept biological males from competing against girls and women in sports last year. The court said the law cannot lawfully be applied to a middle school-aged trans girl who has been taking puberty-blocking medication and has publicly identified as a girl since the third grade.

West Virginia has since made an appeal to the Supreme Court regarding the appeals court’s ruling.

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