Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Denounces SCOTUS Trans Athlete Decision
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Denounces SCOTUS Trans Athlete Decision
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined two other justices in a strong dissent to the court’s Tuesday decision that states can bar transgender athletes from girls’ sports and insisted that Title IX “cannot plausibly” mean that “sex” only refers to a student’s birth gender.
Jackson joined Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor to disagree with the majority ruling that “The term ‘sex’ in Title IX, the Javits Amendment, and the Title IX regulations cannot plausibly be interpreted to refer to anything other than biological sex.”
Justice Jackson was incensed by the majority opinion and insisted that Title IX absolutely does “make room for individuals to live in the gender they choose.” She also delivered the tortured logic that transgender athletes are discriminated against “on the basis of sex” by being perceived as “aggressive.”
Jackson insists that trans athletes are being discriminated against no matter how they are perceived and that is a violation of the non-discrimination rules in Title IX any way you look at it.
“A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination ‘on the basis of sex’ just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter that the transgender woman’s behavior matches expectations of her sex assigned at birth. Either way, the institution has imposed its gender-based expectations upon her. And either way, the institution may have violated Title IX,” she wrote.
Justice Jackson is infamous for saying she had no idea how to define what a woman is during her confirmation hearing in 2022 when Joe Biden nominated her to the nation’s highest court.
Tuesday’s 6-3 decision is a major blow to the left-wing notion that boys can become girls and that once they have “transitioned” they have no physical advantage over athletes born as girls. The decision allows states to ban boys who identify as girls from girls’ sports and allows for the likelihood that transgender athletes do, indeed, have a physical advantage over women.
Writing for the majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the court could not require state sports authorities to make athlete-by-athlete determinations about whether a transgender girl has any male-based physical advantages in sports.
“Particularly in the sports context, determining the effects of the puberty blockers and hormones taken by transgender athletes — and then comparing each of those transgender athletes’ abilities to those of other individual biological males and individual biological females in the relevant sport — would be an almost impossible task for a judge to perform on an equitable basis,” Kavanaugh wrote.
Kavanaugh added Title IX allows schools to create separate girls’ and boys’ sports teams based on “biological sex,” and said that states may use the same rule under the Constitution. He continued, saying, “Schools may determine eligibility for women’s and girls’ sports based on biological sex.”
Kavanaugh was joined in the majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and Amy Coney Barrett.
In her dissent, Justice Sotomayor claimed that the majority opinion went too far in its blanket determination that the courts cannot be expected to make case-by-case medical decisions and even called the decision “unencumbered by fact or law.”
In reference to trans athlete Becky Pepper-Jackson’s cases still pending in lower courts, Sotomayor wrote that, “In an opinion unencumbered by fact or law, the majority today cuts off that process prematurely, deciding instead that B.P.J.’s case must end now.”
She went on to warn that states will exclude trans athletes even where the “facts” shouldn’t support a ban.
“Because of the Court’s decision today, West Virginia, and any other state actor, can deny B.P.J. and others like her these experiences simply because it thinks they have an inherent athletic advantage, even if the facts show that they do not,” Sotomayor wrote. “Sports, of course, are often zero sum, but the law need not and should not be.”
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‘Last Kids on Earth’ TV Series Gets Disney Pilot Order
A television adaptation of “The Last Kids on Earth” book series is in the works at Disney, which has ordered a pilot.
That means an episode of the series will be produced before Disney decides whether to move forward on a full season order.
The project is set up at Disney+ and Disney Channel with showrunners Chad Fiveash and James Stoteraux (“Vampire Diaries,” “One Tree Hill,” “Gotham Knights”). They serve as writers and will executive produce alongside director Kevin Tancharoen (“The Book of Boba Fett,” “The Brothers Sun,” “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”). EPs alaos include Max Brallier, Hillary Zwick Turner, Jennifer Twiner McCarron and Matt Hornburg.
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Written by Max Brallier, “The Last Kids on Earth” is an illustrated novel targeting middle school-aged readers. It follows a foster child named Jack Sullivan, whose sleepy town of Wakefield is faced with the apocalypse. In this end-of-the-world scenario, Jack thrives on junk food and video games while gathering a squad of classmates to fight of zombies and monsters. This mismatched group of teens must band together to survive, and to become the unlikely heroes tasked with saving the world.
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The first “Last Kids on Earth” book was published in 2015 and was followed by new installments in each following year. There are sequels, such as “The Last Kids on Earth and the Zombie Parade” and “The Last Kids on Earth and the Doomsday Race,” as well as standalone books in the series, such as “The Last Kids on Earth: Thrilling Tales From the Tree House” and “The Last Kids on Earth: Quint and Dirk’s Hero Quest.”
This news comes a week after Disney ordered a pilot for an adaptation of the mermaid movie “Aquamarine.” Emma Roberts, who starred in the original film, will guest star as Claire Brown in the pilot.
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Cops who busted smiling sisters Cookie and Kitty offer hint at motive for Texas mom’s murder
By Georgia Worrell Published June 30, 2026, 1:50 p.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The New York Post on GoogleThe vicious, broad-daylight murder of a Texas mother of five was far from a random act of violence, cops have revealed.
Instead, the three young women accused of murdering Caroline “Caro” Peña – smiling sisters Kitty Mia Diaz, 21, and Amaya Cookie Diaz, 19, and their pal, Kyandra Renee Faz, 21 – knew the 32-year-old victim, Del Rio Police Chief Frank Ramirez told TMZ.
All three women were hit with first-degree murder charges after police say Cookie repeatedly stabbed Peña in the back during a heated confrontation in the small border city of Del Rio on Thursday afternoon.
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The chief declined to specify the nature of the relationship between Peña and her accused killers.
Police have not offered an explanation for why the four young women — two of them mothers — were fighting.
Faz told police that Peña had “arrived at her residence looking to start a fight,” according to a criminal complaint obtained by The Post
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Surveillance footage later obtained by investigators showed Peña’s black Dodge pickup truck driving up to Faz’s house, where Cookie and Kitty arrived shortly thereafter.
The video shows Cookie fly out of the passenger seat of a black Chrysler 300 and confront Peña — while holding an object believed by cops to be a knife in her right hand, according to the complaint.
Cookie is seen in the clip striking the mother in the back, where blood begins soaking her shirt, the document states.
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That’s when Kitty and Faz jumped in — allegedly beating Peña before running away, according to the court record.
Peña was reportedly driven to a local hospital by her nephew. She succumbed to the stab wounds at around 9 p.m. at a hospital in San Antonio.
Ramirez stressed that Peña’s decision to go to Faz’s house doesn’t suggest she bore any responsibility for the violence that followed, the outlet reported.
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Just two hours after the brutal attack, Cookie and Kitty flashed twisted smiles as police hauled them off in handcuffs.
Footage taken outside the siblings’ home showed a barefoot Kitty – wearing tight black shorts and a halter top with an illustration of white hands cupping her breasts – grinning briefly at the ground as two officers escorted her into a patrol car around 4 p.m. Thursday.
Her similarly scantily clad younger sister appeared to put on a show for the camera, brazenly flashing her pearly whites and giggling after sarcastically yelling at the man behind the camera, “Stop recording!”
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“I saw the first girl going into the car, and I thought, ‘Whatever’… But the second one caught my eye,” independent journalist Michael Elizondo, who filmed the arrests, later told The Post.
“That girl was in a happy mood…She was all smiling, goofing off like nothing happened,” he said.
Ramirez blasted the sisters’ demeanors as stunningly “callous.”
“My impression is it didn’t look good, and you would think there would be a little more remorse in a situation like that – it looked callous,” he told TMZ, referring to the chilling video of their arrests.
The three accused attackers are behind bars after each were slapped with $5 million bonds by a judge during their first court appearance Friday, when they all requested court-appointed attorneys.
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