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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Christiana Kiefer regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to leave in place for now a federal appeals court’s temporary injunction that prevents West Virginia from enforcing its validly enacted law protecting women’s sports while the case continues in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit: “Today’s decision didn’t end this case. While we hoped the Supreme Court would lift the injunction that the 4th Circuit imposed—with no explanation—on West Virginia’s women’s sports law, we remain ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Christiana Kiefer regarding the Kansas Legislature’s override of Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto Wednesday of the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, a bill that protects opportunities for women and girls in athletics by ensuring they are not forced to compete against males playing on women’s sports teams: “We commend the Kansas Legislature for securing a level playing field for Kansas’s female athletes by overriding Gov. Kelly’s misguided veto of the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act. When the law ignores biological ...

Twelve friend-of-the-court briefs filed with federal appeals court in support of Connecticut female athletes

ADF attorneys represent four female athletes in case before full court

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Christiana Kiefer regarding Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto Friday of the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, as bill that protects opportunities for women and girls in athletics by ensuring they are not forced to compete against males playing on women’s sports teams: “By vetoing this bill, Gov. Kelly has chosen—for the third time—to reject fairness in sports for thousands of women and girls in Kansas. Allowing males to compete in girls’ sports is discriminatory and destroys fair competition and women’s athletic ...

Multiple friend-of-the-court briefs filed with high court in support of WV’s women’s sports law

ADF attorneys file motion asking high court to reverse 4th Circuit’s injunction against WV’s women’s sports law

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Christiana Kiefer regarding Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s introduction Wednesday of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, a bill that protects women’s sports by clarifying that allowing males to compete on women’s teams violates Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for federally funded schools and colleges: “Girls shouldn’t be sidelined in their own sports. Women fought long and hard for equal athletic opportunities and allowing males to compete in girls’ sports reverses 50 years of advances secured ...

ADF attorneys file friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of five female athletes

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Christiana Kiefer regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit’s announcement Monday that the full court will hear Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools, a lawsuit ADF attorneys filed on behalf of four female athletes who were consistently deprived of honors and opportunities to compete at elite levels because the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference adopted a policy that allows males who identify as female to compete in girls’ athletic events: “Selina, Chelsea, Alanna, and Ashley ...