{"id":2608074,"date":"2026-05-28T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aclu-backed-transgender-athlete-wins-girls-state-title\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:41:57","slug":"aclu-backed-transgender-athlete-wins-girls-state-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aclu-backed-transgender-athlete-wins-girls-state-title\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU-Backed Transgender Athlete Wins Girls State Title"},"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%2Faclu-backed-transgender-athlete-wins-girls-state-title%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=2608074&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>A 15-year-old sophomore from Bridgeport High School, Becky Pepper-Jackson, won West Virginia\u2019s Class AAA girls shot put state championship by more than two feet. Pepper-jackson has been pursuing the right to compete against other girls for several years and is currently allowed to do so under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-biden-aides-privately-relieved-courts-reinstated-remain-in-mexico-policy-amid-border-crisis\/\" title=\"Report: Biden Aides Privately \u2018Relieved\u2019 Courts Reinstated \u2018Remain In Mexico\u2019 Policy Amid Border Crisis\">federal court order<\/a> while related litigation works its way thru the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The article describes arguments for and against west Virginia\u2019s law that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-is-nowhere-near-letting-go-of-its-trans-obsession\/\" title=\"The Left Is Nowhere Near Letting Go Of Its Trans Obsession\">ban male athletes<\/a> from girls\u2019 teams. West Virginia officials and Republican lawmakers claim that allowing a male to compete and win girls\u2019 events is \u201cplain wrong\u201d and that such rules protect opportunities for girls. Supporters of Pepper-Jackson, including the ACLU of West Virginia, argue that the Supreme Court has permitted participation to continue pending final resolution, and Pepper-Jackson has said the decision matters for other trans kids who want to play sports with their classmates.<\/p>\n<p>The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission says it complies with the court order and will wait for the Supreme Court ruling before commenting further. The piece also cites critics who argue that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >male athletes retain<\/a> a biological advantage despite any interventions.  <\/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\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A self-proclaimed transgender West Virginia athlete has won the race to claim a state championship before potentially facing a ban for being a male competing in female sports.<\/p>\n<p>Becky Pepper-Jackson, 15, a sophomore at Bridgeport High School, won the state Class AAA shot put competition, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvgazett.com\/news\/transgender-bridgeport-high-school-sophomore-wins-wv-girls-shot-put-title\/article_db9efeae-cbcc-4786-957d-a8f5361b2e83.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charleston Gazette-Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His winning throw was more than two feet beyond that of the second-place finisher.<\/p>\n<p>Pepper-Jackson has spent the last five years fighting to compete against females, helped by the ACLU of West Virginia, which filed a lawsuit on his behalf in 2021. The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed him to compete against females, pending a final ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know how hurtful a law like this is to all kids like me who just want to play sports with their classmates, and I\u2019m doing this for them,\u201d Pepper-Jackson has said. \u201cTrans kids deserve better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the case to enforce a West Virginia law that bans males from female teams was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in January, Michael Williams, West Virginia\u2019s solicitor general, said \u201cbiological sex matters in athletics in ways both obvious and undeniable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Pepper-Jackson] says that West Virginia schools can no longer designate teams by looking to biological sex,\u201d Williams said. \u201cInstead, schools must place students on sports teams based on their self-identi\ufb01ed gender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Criticizing that as \u201cbackwards logic,\u201d Williams said it makes Title IX \u201cinto a law that actually denies those opportunities for girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law is indi\ufb00erent to gender identity because sports are indi\ufb00erent to gender identity,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey said \u201cit\u2019s just plain wrong to allow a boy to participate and win a girls\u2019 sporting event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve continued the \ufb01ght for girls\u2019 sports and have made clear that under my watch West Virginia will celebrate the true winners of these championships,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Republican state Sen. Brian Helton, chair of the state Senate Health and Human Resources Committee, said that \u201ccommon sense with adults needs to prevail so that we don\u2019t pretend a person is a biological sex that they\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a responsibility to teach children, and to help them understand that it is a mental illness to have gender dysphoria. We need to have compassion, teach the children and coach them, and get them the counseling that they need, as opposed to pretending like it\u2019s perfectly OK for them to go and compete against girls,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s athletic association insisted it\u2019s following the rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecky Pepper-Jackson participates in WVSSAC competition under a federal court order, which the WVSSAC fully complies with. The underlying legal matter was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 13, 2026. The WVSSAC will have no further comment until the Court issues a ruling and the organization has had the opportunity to review it,\u201d the group said in a statement, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdtv.com\/2026\/05\/23\/9-local-athletes-win-titles-1st-day-west-virginia-state-track-meet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WDTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Alliance Defending Freedom said that Pepper-Jackson\u2019s weekend win shows male athletes have an advantage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe developments from the state meet from this past weekend just underscore the fact that no amount of testosterone suppression or intervention can undo the very real differences that males have over women,\u201d ADF attorney Suzanne Beecher said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/outkick-sports\/trans-athlete-center-supreme-court-title-ix-case-wins-girls-track-field-state-championship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">\u201cIt really cuts against the ACLU\u2019s argument,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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