{"id":2532587,"date":"2026-01-11T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcnabb-scotus-arguments-so-important-for-women\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T15:05:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:05:31","slug":"mcnabb-scotus-arguments-so-important-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcnabb-scotus-arguments-so-important-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"McNabb: SCOTUS arguments \u2018so important for women\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcnabb-scotus-arguments-so-important-for-women%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2532587&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Payton McNabb,a former high-school multisport athlete whose career was ended by an on-court injury,is among the activists at the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear two cases about transgender athletes in school sports: Little v. Hecox (Idaho) and West Virginia v.B.P.J. (West Virginia). Both state laws require athletes to compete based on the sex listed on their original birth certificate. McNabb said the cases are critically critically importent for women and especially female athletes, and she plans to join rallies with other prominent advocates such as Riley Gaines, Sophia Lorey and members of the Independent Women institution. The plaintiffs include Lindsay Hecox,who did not make Boise State&#8217;s women&#8217;s teams,and a 15-year-old identified as B.P.J.,who has used medication to suppress male puberty. Supporters argue the laws protect women&#8217;s sports and safety; opponents say the laws discriminate against transgender youth.Decisions from the Court are expected in June.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">McNabb: SCOTUS arguments &lsquo;so important for women, especially athletes&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2468829\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>(The Center Square) &ndash; From lying injured on a gym floor in the mountains of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/north-carolina\/\">North Carolina<\/a> more than three years ago to the steps of the United States <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\">Supreme Court<\/a>, Payton McNabb&rsquo;s journeys have seldom if ever been more important than Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional hearings, the East Room for a presidential signing, and the U.S. Capitol for a State of the Union were huge moments. This week promises another when the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >high court hears oral arguments<\/a> in two cases out of Idaho and West Virginia involving women and girls in sports.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4413989\/rand-paul-trump-strike-iran-protests\/\">Rand Paul warns Trump striking Iran could rally protesters against US<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4413993\/tim-kaine-senate-vote-greenland-trump\/\">Kaine vows Senate vote to block US military action in Greenland after Trump threat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4413981\/iran-reza-pahlavi-trump-protesters-support\/\">Iran&#8217;s crown prince says Trump &#8216;total opposite&#8217; of Obama and Biden in courting US support<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;This is so important for women in general, but especially women athletes,&rdquo; Payton McNabb told TCS in a one-on-one interview Friday. &ldquo;To see it come this far is rewarding in some ways. But you can&rsquo;t get too far ahead of yourself because you don&rsquo;t know what will happen. It&rsquo;s crazy to even think that the Supreme Court has to decide that men are not biologically different.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She said it would be &ldquo;absurd&rdquo; for the justices to allow men into women&rsquo;s sports, adding, &ldquo;but you literally never know. I&rsquo;m hopeful they&rsquo;ll do the right thing. A lot of people are praying over this decision.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Decisions from the justices are predicted to come in June.<\/p>\n<p>McNabb won&rsquo;t be alone in the rallies in front of the court. She expects to be flanked by Riley Gaines, the indisputable face of the movement to protect women&rsquo;s sports, as well as Sophia Lorey, Jennifer Sey, Brooke Slusser, Macy Petty, Paula Scanlan, Tish Hyman and many others from the Independent Women organization.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fYS32TuDFuA\">It was Sept. 1, 2022<\/a>, at Highlands High School when the spiked volleyball from an opponent changed McNabb&rsquo;s life. The career of the Hiwassee Dam High three-sport athlete, a senior, was done. Today, she still battles medical issues.<\/p>\n<p>Her struggles, she says, are &ldquo;because of one guy&rdquo; and adults who were enablers.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, the nine justices hear Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Hecox, now 24, didn&rsquo;t make the women&rsquo;s track and cross country teams at Boise State. Idaho law, a first of its kind in 2020, says athletes from elementary school through college are to participate on respective male or female teams based on &ldquo;original birth certificate issued at the time of birth.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>B.P.J., 15-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-education-sec-on-womens-school-sports-we-have-a-legal-responsibility-to-include-transgender-athletes\/\" title=\"Biden Education Sec On ...\u2019s ...: We Have a \u2018Legal Responsibility\u2019 to Include ...\">high school student<\/a>, has identified as female since third grade, using medicine to resist male puberty. West Virginia law, enacted in 2021, is like Idaho in using birth certificate at time of birth.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had friends and family members against what I do, they hate what I do, when I speak out and they say I&rsquo;m not being kind,&rdquo; McNabb said.<\/p>\n<p>Still, her fight is for her younger sister and for them.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s for all women, no matter how they want to project their feelings in the argument,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m very hopeful and encouraged with all these strong and wonderful women who will be on the ground.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In an&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_46f6ca60-e269-11ef-8218-9b00a5dd1b35.html\">interview with TCS last February<\/a>, Independent Women&rsquo;s Forum President Carrie Lukas said kindness and empathy didn&rsquo;t work out. Language, she said, was lost or arguably stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Gaines, a 12-time All-American swimmer at Kentucky, made it her mission to protect women&rsquo;s spaces and in particular athletics. Scanlan, a swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania subjected to undressing at daily practices with a fully intact male in the locker room, was among the first to join in when few others would. Sey, former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/loreal-paris-hosts-exuberant-catwalk-presentation-at-fashion-week\/\" title=\"L\u2019Oreal Paris hosts exuberant catwalk presentation at fashion week\">global brand president<\/a> at Levi&rsquo;s, started her own XX-XY apparel company.<\/p>\n<p>The movement was joined by the likes of Martina Navratilova and J.K. Rowling, arguably as good as any in their respective tennis and book author fields.<\/p>\n<p>Their stories are many, their goal singular.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No one could dare speak up to this machine we were up against,&rdquo; McNabb said. But now, &ldquo;Everyone can say it freely enough. I&rsquo;m so proud of everybody. I&rsquo;m proud of Riley &ndash; she got it started. She&rsquo;s genuinely a heroine &ndash; so talented, she pushed and motivated so many to speak out. It&rsquo;s not easy. If I&rsquo;m getting it every single day, I know everyone else is, too.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/4411699\/gender-transitions-schools-poised-next-front-transgender-legal-war\/\">GENDER TRANSITIONS AT SCHOOLS POISED TO BE NEXT FRONT IN TRANSGENDER LEGAL WAR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crazy, absurd or otherwise, it&rsquo;s a battle for which McNabb has no regrets. To feel the unity with others in gatherings Monday night, and rallies on Tuesday, she has genuine excitement and comfort.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Courage begets courage, and that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;ve seen,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;We started with so few, and now it&rsquo;s so many. And it&rsquo;s because it happened to so many. The argument that it just happened to one girl, that argument is no more.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McNabb: SCOTUS cases crucial for female athletes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2869,"featured_media":2532588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP24164734285600.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[32547,52590,36292,6994,32276],"class_list":["post-2532587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-gender-equality","tag-legal-arguments","tag-reproductive-rights","tag-scotus","tag-womens-rights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP24164734285600.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2532587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532591,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532587\/revisions\/2532591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2532588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}