Another Male Won Awards at Another Girls Track and Field Championship
Becky Pepper-Jackson, the transgender-identified boy at the center of a highly anticipated Supreme Court case, won two awards at the girls state AAA track and field championships last month.
Pepper-Jackson, who sued West Virginia in 2021 over its law protecting girls sports, took first place in girls shot put on May 23. He outthrew second-place finisher Paislee Babiczuk by more than two feet.
Pepper-Jackson also finished fourth in the state in girls discus.
West Virginia Attorney General John McCusky sent a letter regarding Pepper Jackson’s dominant performance to the Supreme Court, which is expected to rule on State of West Virginia v. BPJ later this month.
The Court’s ruling in BPJ and another, similar case, Little v. Hecox, will determine whether states can uphold laws separating sports by sex.
“As a high school sophomore, BPJ is not finishing ‘near the back of the pack,” McCuskey wrote, “but is instead defeating every — or nearly every — female in the state in these events.”
McCusky’s letter strikes at the heart of Pepper-Jackson and his ACLU attorneys’ case, which argues he experiences no physical advantages to female athletes because he never went through puberty.
In its November brief, the ACLU claimed Pepper-Jackson chose not to participate in speed and endurance track events because he was “too slow” and “placed near the back of the pack.” Only “through hard work and practice,” did he improve enough to start competing in post season events, the brief contends.
But Pepper-Jackson’s performance at state — as a sophomore, no less — doesn’t align with the ACLU’s description.
“The developments from the state meet … just underscore the fact that no amount of testosterone suppression or intervention can undo the very real differences that males have over women,” Suzanne Beecher, an attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom, the legal firm which argued on behalf of women’s sports before the Court, told Fox News Digital.
The ACLU West Virginia’s Mollie Kennedy spun Pepper-Jackson’s state win quite differently, emphasizing he had not uniformly out-performed all female athletes in his events this season.
“[Pepper-Jackson is] just trying to play sports and they become the focus of all this community bullying because someone has decided their appearance indicates some kind of unfairness,” Kennedy concluded in an interview with a local outlet.
Sigh.
Let’s start with Pepper-Jackson’s record. While he did not take first place in all his events this year, he placed first in most of them.
Pepper-Jackson threw 12 times prior to state — six shot put and six discus. He took first in four of the shot put and discus competitions, each. He placed second and third in the remaining two shot put competitions and second in the remaining two discus throws.
Each time Pepper-Jackson stepped on the podium, he displaced a female athlete who worked hard to be there. It is unbearably unjust.
But let’s suppose, for a moment, Pepper-Jackson never won. He never stepped on the podium and never stole a medal from a deserving girl. It wouldn’t matter. Women deserve access to single-sex sports, regardless of prospective male competitors’ athletic prowess.
People who ask women to accommodate men with sexual identity issues by making themselves uncomfortable are engaging in misogyny.
To address Kennedy’s other points, advocating for single-sex sports and spaces is not bullying. Title IX mandates educational programs which receive federal funds separate sports, bathrooms and locker rooms by biological sex.
The criticism directed toward Pepper-Jackson or, rather, the people allowing Pepper-Jackson to play girls sports, has nothing to do with his appearance and everything to do with biology. Every cell in our bodies is sexed male or female. That designation, which occurs at conception, dictates the formation of our bodies.
The pubertal process plays a pivotal role in development. Preventing someone from entering puberty, or pumping them full of wrong-sex hormones in a mockery of an “opposite-sex” puberty, is cruel and unusual medical experimentation which can cause life-long medical problems.
But a boy who doesn’t go through puberty is not a girl.
A boy who is pumped full of estrogen is not a girl.
They are still boys at a cellular level. And they still posses musculoskeletal and vascular advantages over women.
Society did not “decide” men have biological advantages over women in most athletics. That is reality. Kennedy and her ilk dislike reality but, try as they might, they can’t make it go away.
The Daily Citizen is hopeful the Supreme Court will allow states to uphold biological reality this June. Unfortunately, for the girls who competed against Pepper-Jackson at the West Virginia state track and field finals, it’s already too late. The harm has been done. A boy’s desires were prioritized over girls’ athletic aspirations, hard work and physical boundaries.
And why would they object? We know what happens to girls who stand up for themselves.
In 2024, at the Harrison County girls track and field finals, five middle school girls peacefully refused to throw against Pepper-Jackson, then in eighth grade. Lincoln Middle School subsequently stopped the protestors from competing in their next meet.
The girls’ parents sued the Harrison County Board of Education and, with the support of then Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, were able to obtain a judge’s order allowing them to compete as planned.
But I don’t imagine students are overly eager to stand up for themselves after that fiasco.
The Daily Citizen begs moms, dads, grandpas and grandmas to stand in the gap. Be bold in defense of your girls — and boys. Do not apologize for defending women’s sports and biological reality.
To learn more about male incursions into female sports, and what you can do to help, read the Daily Citizen’s article, “‘Save Girls Sports’ on the November Ballot”
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