Rightwing Gen Z Women Are Celebrating the Anti-Trans Supreme Court Ruling
Originally published with Kelsy Burke in The Guardian on July 1, 2026.
On the steps of the US supreme court on Tuesday, a group of women celebrated. They cheered and held up signs with phrases like “Girls’ Sports for Girls Only” and “Truth, Fairness, Biological Reality”. Penny Young Nance, the CEO of Concerned Women for America, told the gathering that after a decade of these conservative women’s activism: “The court agrees with us that a man cannot be a woman.”
“The decision will affect the law across the country,” she said. “We will have a better opportunity to protect young women.”
The court’s decision upheld state restrictions on transgender students’ sports participation. The ruling falls in line with the broader Republican agenda to strip transgender people, especially youth, of rights.