Attorney General Alan Wilson fights school policy forcing girls to share rooms with biological males

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is fighting a Colorado school district’s policy that rooms students together on field trips and sporting events based on gender identity. A federal district court dismissed a lawsuit against that policy, and Attorney General Wilson joined a 21-state friend-of-the-court brief appealing that dismissal.

“As the father of a teenage daughter who plays sports, I can’t imagine her going to an out-of-town sporting event and rooming with a biological boy,” Attorney General Wilson said. “Protecting girls in private spaces is common sense and one that I will never quit fighting for.”

In the Colorado case, Christian parents sued to stop the policy, but the court ruled in favor of the school district. The attorneys general argue that the ruling treats Christians with traditional views about human sexuality as second-class citizens. They also argue that the school district’s policy is based on discredited guidelines on pediatric gender dysphoria.

In September, Attorney General Wilson and 27 other states asked the Supreme Court of the United States to allow states to pass laws that protect girls’ sports by ensuring that all participants are biological females. West Virginia and Idaho passed laws protecting girls’ sports, but those laws were struck down by the Fourth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals. In 2022, the South Carolina legislature passed the Save Women’s Sports Act, which is similar to West Virginia’s and Idaho’s laws. South Carolina’s law uses biological sex at birth rather than gender identity to classify sports teams as girls’ or boys’.

Joining Attorney General Wilson on the brief in the Colorado case are the attorneys general of Florida, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming, and the state legislature of Arizona.

You can read the brief here.