The Supreme Court Tackles Trans Sports Bans with Shiwali Patel

About this episode

We Dissent welcomes guest Shiwali Patel, Senior Director of Education Justice at National Women's Law Center, who walks us through the anti-trans sports ban cases currently before the Supreme Court, Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. We discuss the history of Title IX and why the attack on trans sports participation is really an attack on the basis of this critical nondiscrimination law.    Background Shiwali Patel's bio National Women's Law Center Previous trans rights episodes Episode 16 – Sex on the Brain: the Assault on Trans People with Sasha Buchert Episode 38 – Skrmetti v. U.S. NWLC Amicus SCOTUSblog - "The justices and gender pronouns" SCOTUSblog - "Supreme Court appears likely to uphold transgender athlete bans" Cases Little v. Hecox SCOTUSblog Oral argument transcript West Virginia v. B.P.J. SCOTUSblog Oral argument transcript   Check us out on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, and X. Our website, we-dissent.org, has more information as well as episode transcripts.