You know that fight Nevada had last year? Over boys playing girls' sports?
The Supreme Court just settled it. And it went our way.
Justice Clarence Thomas DROPS THE MIC with the most BASED concurrence after SCOTUS upholds the ban on men in women's sports.
“Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe they are”
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 30, 2026
Tuesday, the Court ruled 6-3 that states can keep girls' sports for biological girls.
Justice Kavanaugh wrote the opinion. Sports are competitive, he said. Somebody wins, somebody loses.
And pretending otherwise doesn't help anyone.
What The Court Decided
All nine justices, even the liberal ones, agreed that state bans on trans athletes don't violate Title IX.
Sotomayor agreed. Kagan agreed. Jackson agreed.
The lawyers fighting these bans spent years telling everyone the law was clearly on their side. It wasn't.
Even the judges who wanted to rule against the states couldn't make that argument work.
Nevada Saw This Coming
We already lived through a version of this fight right here in Nevada.
Back in 2023, a biological male athlete at North Valleys High School in Reno won two state track championships in the girls' division.
Parents and female athletes pushed back. Hard.
It took until April 2025 for the NIAA to finally change the rule. Now athletes compete based on the sex on their birth certificate.
Governor Lombardo backed the change. So did Lt. Governor Stavros Anthony. And Democrats in the Legislature fought it the whole way. State Senator Melanie Scheible went on the radio and called the policy appalling.
The Supreme Court just told her she was wrong.
This Ruling Matters For Nevada's Girls
Nevada's NIAA policy is just a sports association rule. One vote from a future board could undo it.
That's exactly why Lombardo pushed the “Protect Girls' Sports” initiative, to lock the protection into the state constitution instead.
This ruling doesn't automatically win that fight, but it knocks out the best legal weapon the other side had. They can't credibly say these laws violate federal civil rights law anymore.
The Supreme Court just said, unanimously, that they don't.
The Other Side Isn't Backing Down
The other side isn't quitting. The ACLU and Lambda Legal point out this ruling only covers two states directly, and plenty of questions remain, like what happens with grade school sports. This isn't fully over.
Girls got called bigots at NIAA meetings for asking for a fair shot. Now those girls have the Supreme Court on their side.
And now we'll find out if Nevada Democrats can admit they were wrong, or if they'll spend another election pretending biology is up for debate.
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