Women Rally At Supreme Court Steps As Justices Weigh Landmark Cases To Protect Female Athletes

The steps of the Supreme Court were the backdrop for hundreds of women and men who showed up on Tuesday to protect the sanctity of women’s sports.

For the first time, the Court heard cases on whether men could compete in women’s sports. While arguments occurred inside the courtroom, a rally could be heard outside the building, where the women leading the movement made their voices heard.

The two cases presented to the Supreme Court on Tuesday won’t have a decision for months. But Kaitlynn Wheeler is hopeful the outcome will ensure that women — and only women — can compete in women’s sports for generations to come. Wheeler, alongside other women, has fought for years to keep men out of women’s sports.

At Kentucky, Wheeler competed against Lia Thomas, the man who infamously tied with Riley Gaines, igniting the movement to save women’s sports

“I’m optimistic that it will be in our favor, in the favor of common sense, and in the favor of the overwhelming majority of the American people,” Wheeler said.

Trump signed the “Keeping Men Out Of Women’s Sports” executive order last February, but Wheeler wants federal law to reflect it so it cannot be so easily reversed.

“This is something that we need to get codified into law,” Wheeler explained. “We need to really look at Title IX, too, and even add on to Title IX, and make it into law because again, it can be taken down just as quickly as it was put up.”

Wheeler, like the defendants in court Tuesday, believes Title IX defines sex by biological sex, and it needs to reflect that.

“I think Title IX needs to define them, that way we eliminate the confusion,” Wheeler said.

“Everyone is so excited to be together because we have all been fighting for this for years now,” Payton McNabb, another one of the women at the frontlines of the movement, told The Daily Wire.

McNabb was severely injured by a man on a high school girls’ volleyball team just before she turned 18. She couldn’t drive for months. She couldn’t finish out her volleyball season because she suffered a concussion and a neck injury from the spike.

“This stuff is just so insane that it doesn’t even sound real, but that’s actually a reality,” McNabb said.

Credit: Payton McNabb

These women, along with Gaines, former gymnast Jennifer Sey, former ESPN anchor Sage Steele, and others, have spearheaded the fight, but men have joined the battle too.

Dakota Meyer is a girl dad, a Marine, and an ambassador with Sey’s clothing brand, XX-XY. He told The Daily Wire that more men need to speak up against males competing in the women’s category.

“My daughters are tall, so like they’re taller than a lot of the boys their age, but when they play a boys team, even at eight and nine years old, my daughters cannot keep up with them,” Meyer said.

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Tuesday saw many protesters oppose keeping men out of women’s sports, but the majority of the people present were there to back the movement to protect women. McNabb said she’s been most surprised by support from Democrats, even though she thinks that stating biology shouldn’t be a partisan issue.

“They understand that this issue is so real and it means so much to them because everyone has a woman in their life and this affects them ultimately in some way,” McNabb said.

The Tuesday rally in Washington, D.C., was a success on all accounts, according to McNabb. The now 20-year-old waits with the rest of the country on the high court’s ruling.

“I’m praying for a good outcome here,” McNabb said. “I’m praying over all the Supreme Court justices, but also everyone that’s been affected, and that the other side will have clarity and understand that they are loved and created in God’s image.”