Mon Feb 27, 2023 – 5:48 pm ESTMon Feb 27, 2023 – 6:15 pm EST
CHARLESTON, West Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — An appellate court issued an injunction last week on a 2021 West Virginia law designed to protect women’s sports.
In a 2-1 ruling delivered Wednesday by the court, the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals reissued an injunction against a law that sought to limit the participation of gender-confused students in elementary, high school, and collegiate girls’ sports.
The law further defines biological sex based on one’s anatomy at birth and holds that “Classification of teams according to biological sex is necessary to promote equal athletic opportunities for the female sex,” as LifeSiteNews previously reported.
The ruling followed a motion to place an injunction on the law after U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin rescinded a previous injunction that he issued on the law, recognizing its constitutionality.
Goodwin placed the original injunction on the law in July 2021 after the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU)’s West Virginia chapter, as well as lawyers from Lambda Legal and the Cooley Law Firm,
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