In West Virginia v. B.P.J, state officials are defending the Save Women’s Sports Act, which bars transgender women and girls from participating in women’s sports teams in public secondary schools and universities, against Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 15-year-old trans high school student looking to join the girls track team.

Geoffrey Stone, a law professor at the University of Chicago and former law clerk to Justice William Brennan Jr., said he expects the court to side with Little and West Virginia because of the advantage trans women have in women’s athletics.

“For a trans woman to be able to play in women’s sports, it gives her an advantage that other women do not have,” Stone said. “I can imagine a court writing an opinion that limits itself only to the athletic context, only because of that particular factor.”

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