Drummond lauds Supreme Court ruling to uphold ban on transgender athletes in girls’ sports

OKLAHOMA CITY (June 30, 2026) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond praised the United States Supreme Court’s decision today to preserve states’ authority to enforce laws that protect girls’ and women’s sports by ensuring all participants are biological females.

“I appreciate the court’s decision which will allow Oklahoma to ensure fair competition for female athletes,” Drummond said. “Athletic competitions should be based on biological sex. I will continue to defend and enforce commonsense laws that preserve competitive fairness in female sports.”

Drummond filed two multi-state amicus briefs supporting the transgender athlete ban in both cases before the Supreme Court where laws protecting female sports had been invalidated by lower courts. 

One of the briefs noted that for the last 50 years, Title IX has guaranteed women and girls equal access to athletic opportunities. But decisions that radically reinterpret Title IX do the opposite: turning a statute designed to give women and girls equal access into a law that actually bans states from doing exactly that whenever a biological male identifies as female.

Oklahoma passed its own “Save Women’s Sports Act” in 2022 prohibiting biological males who identify as female from competing on girls and women’s sports teams.