5 Experts Available for Timely Analysis on SCOTUS Transgender Athlete Cases
The Supreme Court upheld two state laws that prohibit transgender athletes from participating on girls' and women's sports teams. The decisions are expected to have significant implications for transgender rights, education policy, athletics, and the broader legal debates surrounding sex discrimination and equal protection.
For reporters writing about the impacts the decisions will have, the following experts are available to provide commentary and analysis:
Kirkland is an interdisciplinary scholar of law and politics in the US with a focus on rights claiming, health, and discrimination. She studies how ordinary people mobilize law and rights claims to make political claims about what they deserve and what harms should be officially recognized.
Marhoefer co-authored an amicus brief submitted in these cases. He is an expert on trans history and trans legal issues in historical perspective, and he is transgender.
Murib specializes in transgender politics, race, and sexuality in the U.S. Murib is the author of Terms of Exclusion (Oxford, 2023) and Hormones and the Body Politic, which explores how public discourse about hormones reveals ideas about race, gender, and class in U.S. politics.
Purvis's research focuses on the rights of transgender children. Her last law review article, Transgender Students and the First Amendment, won a Dukemenier Award from the Williams Institute as one of the best law review articles on sexual orientation and gender identity. She is one of the signatories to the Equal Protection Scholars amicus brief in West Virginia v. BPJ, which was referenced in oral arguments before the Supreme Court.
Siegel’s research examines how regulating trans people’s access to resources in one sphere (i.e., healthcare and the law) amplifies regulation in other arenas. They also examine how discrimination against trans women harms all women, whether they are trans or not.