Protecting US womens sports: Letters to the Editor July 6, 2026

During her 2022 Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson could not define what a woman is, saying “I’m not a biologist.” Yet, she was actually allowed to cast a vote in the ruling on state bans on transgender athletes participating in girls’ and women’s sports (“Logic wins, but game isn’t over,” Kirsten Fleming, July 1).Due to her lack of knowledge on the subject or her aversion to telling the truth on the matter, she should have been excused from voting on the decision.James LautierWindsor, Conn.I agree with Justice Brett Kavanaugh that men should not participate in women’s sports.I also agree that the trans students who have the desire to compete are teenagers or people in their early 20s and should be treated with respect.Louie ScarcellaConey IslandThank you to the Supreme Court for making the obvious decision concerning boys competing in girls’ sports.There is a solution that can make everyone happy: Have all the transgender athletes move to states like California or Connecticut.Then those states will have winning teams to brag about.Margaret MastersPoint LookoutThe Supreme Court’s ruling on the right to ban biological males from women’s sports does not constitute a federal law telling states what to do.

It merely gives the states the right to decide the matter individually, as was the case with abortion.This is another example of the Supreme Court’s tendency to address only limited and specific applications to the Constitution and its reluctance to address critical issues broadly and decisively.Contentious issues involving sanctuary-city status, justice reform and property rights likely will be treated similarly.Richard CarhidiManhattanMales are males, regardless of their exterior presence.

For trans people to be so insensitive and uncaring toward the biological differences between us and them is hurtful — both physically and mentally.It is abusive of them to use their strength against us women.The Supr...