A Trans Girl Playing Sports Is Not An “Emergency”

Seriously, elected officials, don’t you have better uses of your time than this?

Pax Ahimsa Gethen
3 min readApr 7

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Composite image of a female “Venus” symbol, soccer ball, and a map of West Virginia. Credits: Ewan ar Born, CC BY-SA 3.0; Chrisarthur2013, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States declined an emergency request from the state of West Virginia to prohibit a trans girl from competing in sports alongside her middle school classmates.

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen

Queer agender trans male. Black vegan atheist, pacifist. Pronouns: they/them/their. funcrunch.org, patreon.com/funcrunch