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I had a short post on 9/9/25 about a man who wanted to play in women’s sports filed suit and it’s actually been accepted for review by the Supreme Court. And then the world changed with the Supreme Court let the Tennessee law about transing kids stand and both he and the ACLU tried to pull his case back.
Decided earlier this year and directly before the Court accepted Hecox’s case for review, in Skrmetti the Court rejected the precise kinds of equal protection arguments Hecox plans to make, and concluded a Tennessee law banning puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender kids (also known as mentally ill kids) was perfectly constitutional.
In other words, Hecox saw the writing on the wall and is now trying to game the system and keep the justices away from rendering the same kind of decision in his/her case and preventing men from playing on women’s sports teams.
And they are still trying. But now they are saying that he suit is moot because he ‘no longer wishes to play in women’s sports’.
But dude stepped on his dick by asking for a stay of action in district court while the Supremes look at it. So the other side is arguing that he can’t bow out because the lower court can’t take any action.
Not only does he/she now claim he/she no longer wants to play college sports on women’s teams, but filed a “Notice of Voluntary Dismissal” at the district court in order to end the case.
In other words, according to his/her argument, there is nothing left to decide.
For their part, the petitioners have strongly opposed Hecox’s attempt to argue mootness, maintaining amongst other things that Hecox’s previous promise to stay the case means she cannot now bow out.
I honestly think this is hilarious. They were overconfident and it could be to the benefit of all women in college sports when the Supreme Court rules on this.
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