XX Wins Title IX: Girls Victorious as Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Common Sense
The legal argument that States cannot protect girls’ sports is dead. In a sweeping decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the authority of states to limit female athletic competition to biological females, rejecting years of legal challenges that claimed such protections violated federal law and the Constitution. Craig DeRoche, President and CEO of Family Policy Alliance, has been at the forefront of this fight.
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- Supreme Court upholds protections for girls’ sports.
- Family Policy Alliance helped launch the winning legal strategy.
- Idaho’s landmark law becomes the national blueprint.
- Title IX protections for female athletes reaffirmed.
- The legal fight now shifts to resistant states.
For the movement that has spent nearly a decade advancing these laws, the ruling is more than a courtroom victory—it is complete vindication. DeRoche is available to discuss why this decision changes the national conversation and exposes just how wrong the ruling’s opponents were.
Long before politicians, corporations, and sports organizations embraced gender identity over biological sex, Family Policy Alliance warned that female athletes would pay the price. Critics dismissed those concerns as fearmongering. Today, the Supreme Court has affirmed that states not only may protect girls’ sports—they have every legal right to do so.
Family Policy Alliance didn’t simply support the movement. It helped build it.
Working alongside Idaho Family Policy Center, FPA helped draft and pass Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act in 2020—the first law of its kind in America and the very statute at the center of today’s ruling. That breakthrough ignited a nationwide movement, with more than half the states adopting similar protections for female athletes.
“This ruling is a decisive rejection of the claim that protecting girls’ sports is unlawful,” DeRoche said. “The Constitution does not require states to sacrifice fairness for ideology.”
DeRoche can discuss why the Court’s decision represents a major reset for Title IX; how state lawmakers succeeded where national leaders refused to act; why this ruling places new legal pressure on states that continue allowing biological males to compete in girls’ sports; and why the next battleground will likely shift from whether states can protect female athletes to why some states still won’t.
For years, opponents insisted these laws would never survive judicial scrutiny. They predicted courts would strike them down. They were wrong.
The Supreme Court has now settled the central legal question. The debate over girls’ sports is no longer about whether states have the authority to protect female athletes. They do. The question now is which states will continue denying girls the protection the nation’s highest court has declared they are free to provide.
Relevant Article(s):
Huge Victory at the Supreme Court for Protecting Girls’ Sports – Family Policy Alliance
OPTIONAL Q&A:
- How does this ruling redefine the future of Title IX?
- What does today’s decision mean for states without girls’ sports protections?
- Why were critics so certain these laws would be struck down?
- How did Idaho become the blueprint for this Supreme Court victory?
- What message does this ruling send to schools and athletic associations?
- Will states allowing biological males in girls’ sports face new legal challenges?
- Why did Family Policy Alliance take up this fight years before others?
- Is today’s ruling the end of this debate—or just the beginning?
ABOUT CRAIG DEROCHE…
Craig DeRoche serves as President and CEO of Family Policy Alliance, the central hub of the pro-family movement, equipping citizens, churches, and elected officials to protect children, defend parents’ rights, and advance biblical values through civic engagement. Under Craig’s leadership, FPA and its network of 40 state family policy councils have helped lead major national campaigns including Save Girls Sports, Help Not Harm, After Roe, and Let Parents Parent.
Craig previously served as Speaker of the House in Michigan and president of Justice Fellowship, founded by Watergate figure, Chuck Colson. He is a frequent speaker and author on faith, culture, public policy, and civic engagement and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fox News, and Christianity Today. Craig is also a devoted husband and father and the author of Highly Functional and Outrageous Justice.
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