ONGOING CASES
B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
On April 16, 2024, the Fourth Circuit ruled in favor of the plaintiff, a middle school-aged trans athlete, and held that a West Virginia law prohibiting trans students from participating equally in school sports violated Title IX. After initially declining the state’s petition for review, the Supreme Court decided to consider the case in its 2026 term, making this the second critically important trans rights case that the high court will consider in under two years.
Anderson v. Crouch
FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS
VICTORY! On April 29, 2024, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a joint decision en banc in Kadel v. Folwell and Anderson v. Crouch, finding that healthcare plans that cover medically necessary treatments for certain diagnoses but bar coverage of those same medically necessary treatments for patients diagnosed with gender dysphoria violate federal law and the U.S. Constitution.