What's next in the battle to 'save women's sports' after SCOTUS ruling — and the hidden damage driving it

Female athletes Madison Kenyon, Adaleia Cross and Soleil Hoefer sat down with Fox News Digital to discuss the ongoing perils facing girls due to trans athletes after the recent Supreme Court ruling. 

For millions of women and girls across the country, the Supreme Court's ruling on trans athletes has changed nothing.

There are still 23 states that don't have laws keeping biological males out of women's sports, and 19 of those states have policies that actively allow it. Washington state is one of those.

"No matter what the ruling with the Supreme Court was, nothing has changed," Washington high school athlete Soleil Hoefer told Fox News Digital. "It’s just really frustrating to be a part of such a movement that isn’t getting any relief like these two girls have."

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Protesters opposing transgender athletes competing in women's sports gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 13, 2026, as two cases about transgender girls' participation in girls' and women's sports teams are heard inside. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Her junior year, she said, her club soccer team played against a biological male goalkeeper during a showcase tournament in Las Vegas.

"I was a forward. Wasn’t a great matchup," Hoefer said. "Knowing that I didn’t have the physical ability to beat this man was so frustrating."

Then, during her senior year, she said she had to run against a male athlete in the 400 meters.

"The 400 meter race is already such a mental game," she said. "Knowing that no matter what I trained for and what time I ran, I would always lose was so frustrating, and knowing that this could possibly happen to my little sister is what made me stand up for it."

But Hoefer