"Transgender Women on College Athletic Teams — The Case of Lindsay Hecox"

In the spring of 2020, the Idaho legislature passed a bill that effectively precludes transgender girls and women (from kindergarten through college) from joining female athletic teams. Idaho Governor Bradley Little signed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act into law in  late  March  2020.1
The  law’s  title  suggests  that  it  should  be  understood  as  an  effort  to  ex-pand “fairness.” The presumptive beneficiaries  are  cisgender  (i.e.,  nontransgender) girls and women on school athletic teams who, the law suggests, should not have to compete against transgender girls and  women.
Protecting fairness for cis-gender females cannot, however, serve  as  a  pretext  for  excluding  transgender athletes from sports teams,  especially  if  fair  accom-modations can be crafted.