Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond
OKLAHOMA CITY (Sept. 25, 2025) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve states’ authority to pass and enforce laws that protect girls’ sports by ensuring all participants are biological females.
Drummond and a group of attorneys general recently filed two multi-state amicus briefs supporting Idaho and West Virginia, where laws protecting female sports were invalidated by federal appeals courts. The Ninth and Fourth U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals held that the state laws likely violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by not allowing biological males who identify as women to compete on sports teams reserved for females. The Fourth Circuit also held that Title IX of the Civil Rights Act requires states to allow biological males to compete on girls’ sports teams consistent with their proclaimed gender identity.
Oklahoma passed its own “Save Women’s Sports Act” in 2022 prohibiting biological males who identify as female from competing on girls and women’s sports teams.
“Oklahoma has a responsibility to protect fair competition for our female athletes,” said Drummond. “These federal court decisions undermine states’ rights and threaten the very purpose of Title IX, which was created to provide equal opportunities for women in athletics. Oklahoma will continue to stand with other states in defending commonsense policies that preserve competitive fairness for female athletes.”
The U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing both cases, Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J, in the 2025-2026 term, which starts next month.
Read the amicus briefs for Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J.
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