Becky Pepper-Jackson (C), the West Virginia high school sophomore at the center of the Supreme Court appeal on transgender sports, stands with her legal team and supporters outside the US Supreme Court after justices heard arguments in challenges to state bans on transgender athletes in women's sports on January 13, 2026, in Washington, DC. The US Supreme Court on January 13 wades into the hot-button issue of transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports. The conservative-dominated court is to hear challenges to state laws in Idaho and West Virginia banning transgender athletes from female competition. More than two dozen US states have passed laws in recent years barring athletes who were assigned as male at birth from taking part in girls' or women's sports. (Photo by Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: Protesters who align with the Democratic Party but are against transgender athletes competing in women's sports gather outside the Supreme Court on January 13, 2026 in Washington, DC. Groups from both sides of the debate gathered on Tuesday morning to protest while two cases that prohibit transgender girls from joining girls' and women's sports teams are heard inside the Supreme Court. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: Protesters for and against transgender athletes competing in women's sports gather outside the Supreme Court on January 13, 2026 in Washington, DC. Groups from both sides of the debate gathered on Tuesday morning to protest while two cases that prohibit transgender girls from joining girls' and women's sports teams are heard inside the Supreme Court. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: Protesters against transgender athletes competing in women's sports gather outside the Supreme Court on January 13, 2026 in Washington, DC. Groups from both sides of the debate gathered on Tuesday morning to protest while two cases that prohibit transgender girls from joining girls' and women's sports teams are heard inside the Supreme Court. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: Protesters against transgender athletes competing in women's sports gather outside the Supreme Court on January 13, 2026 in Washington, DC. Groups from both sides of the debate gathered on Tuesday morning to protest while two cases that prohibit transgender girls from joining girls' and women's sports teams are heard inside the Supreme Court. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: A protester supporting transgender athletes competing in women's sports holds a transgender pride flag outside the Supreme Court on January 13, 2026 in Washington, DC. Groups from both sides of the debate gathered on Tuesday morning to protest while two cases that prohibit transgender girls from joining girls' and women's sports teams are heard inside the Supreme Court. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: Protesters supporting transgender athletes competing in women's sports gather outside the Supreme Court on January 13, 2026 in Washington, DC. Groups from both sides of the debate gathered on Tuesday morning to protest while two cases that prohibit transgender girls from joining girls' and women's sports teams are heard inside the Supreme Court. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: Protesters against transgender athletes competing in women's sports gather outside the Supreme Court on January 13, 2026 in Washington, DC. Groups from both sides of the debate gathered on Tuesday morning to protest while two cases that prohibit transgender girls from joining girls' and women's sports teams are heard inside the Supreme Court. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)