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The governor of Virginia-Western, Patrick Morrisey, promised to maintain the fight to protect female and girls sports as a transgender athlete in competition against girls in the state championship.
Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 13-year-old first-year student at Bridgeport Senior High School who was the subject of a Supreme Court case on their participation in sports for girls, finished third in the discus and eighth event in the weight launch competition.
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The Governor of Virginia-Western Patrick Morrisey speaks during a press conference in the Department of Health and Social Services on April 22, 2025 in Washington, DC (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)
While Pepper-Jackson participated in competition, Morrisey urged those responsible to keep separate scores.
“A boy is currently participating in sports of girls to meet on a state track of the lycée in Virginie-Western,” wrote Morrisey on Facebook. “It is false and unfair. I again urge those responsible to keep separate scores so that the real winners can be allocated once we have won the court.
“We will not stop fighting to protect the sports of girls.”
A federal court of appeal blocked a law of Virginia-Western which would have prevented biological men from competing with girls and women in sport last year. The court said that the law could not be legally applied to a trans -age girl from the college age who took puberty blocking drugs and publicly identified as a girl since the third year.
Virginia-Western has since appealed to the Supreme Court concerning the decision of the Court of Appeal.
Becky Pepper-Jackson attends the Lambda Legal Liberty Awards on June 8, 2023 in New York. (Images Roy Rochlin / Getty for Lambda Legal)
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In 2023, the judges of the Supreme Court refused to disrupt an order from the Court of Appeal which allowed the daughter to continue playing on the track and cross-country teams of her college.
While the athletics of the Lycée de Virginie-Western had settled in the playoffs, Morrisy called on coaches to let the athletes “take a stand” against the transgender people participating in the sports of girls.
“I believe what is going on at the moment in Virginia-Western-with boys who play sports against girls-to be odious and contrary to the law,” he wrote on Facebook. “While we are waiting for the Supreme Court to make its decision in this case, I call all the coaches involved in letting these brave athletes take a stand for what is just without unfair punishment.
Patrick Morrisey speaks during a campaign event on October 22, 2018 in Inwood, Virginia-Western. (Win McNamee / Getty images)
“While we are all working on the abolition of the injunction wrongly, in the coming months, I ask that all those responsible for the tournament maintain a full set of results so that the real winners of each event can be recognized when the Supreme Court rule in our favor.”
