Supreme Court upholds Texas laws banning transgender athletes from women’s sports

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- In a 6-3 decision Tuesday, the Supreme Court upheld state laws banning transgender athletes form female sports, meaning Texas laws already in place since 2023 will remain.

Signed into law in 2021, House Bill 25 requires K-12 student athletes who compete in interscholastic competitions to play with teams corresponding with the sex on their birth certificate.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott also Senate Bill 15 in 2023, which requires college athletes in public institutions to compete on teams corresponding with their sex assigned at birth. SB 15 is also known as the "Save Women's Sports Act."

Gov. Abbott also praised the decision, calling it a huge win for girls' sports where fairness prevailed.

On Truth Social, President Trump called the ruling a big win for the Supreme Court.

ABC-7 spoke with the Borderland Rainbow Center about the Supreme Court's decision.

Executive Director Amber Perez said, "I'm incredibly disappointed. I think that this is definitely not where, our administration should be focusing on, trans people, should be allowed to exist as they are. They make up a fraction of  demographic."

Perez hopes change comes with the November election.