Advocate NL 6/30/26 | Advocate.com

Today is the last day of Pride Month, and the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to the LGBTQ+ community, but it wasn’t a complete blow.

Audience Editor Edgar Ramirez is here. It’ll be back in your inbox this Tuesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld state bans on transgender girls and women participating in girls’ and girls’ school sports, delivering a major victory for Republican-led states and a crushing defeat for trans students who asked the justices to participate as themselves in public school life, Christopher Wiggins reports.

But Shannon Minter, legal director at the National LGBTQ+ Rights Center, says there is light at the end of what feels like a very long and dark tunnel in the fight for equality.

“This is a disappointing decision, but a narrow one, a setback, and not the end of the road,” Minter wrote. “The court decided only that May something done in a specific field of sports. It doesn’t settle the science, set standards for constitutional review, or take away schools’ freedom to include transgender athletes. ”

For those wondering what the science says about transgender women in sports, here’s a refresher and recent studies that support what inclusion advocates have been saying for years.

Our community achieved one victory today in the lower courts. Transgender troops have won a major ruling in their fight against President Trump’s military ban. It’s an event worth celebrating while the fight continues, as firefighter Clayton McAllister, recently profiled by Wiggins, said, “At some point we’re going to change course. It’s just a matter of when.”

Thank you everyone. Take care, keep up the pride, and we’ll be back tomorrow.

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