A group with matching purple shirts that read “Girls just want fairness in sports” jumped in joy, hugged each other and cheered in celebration of the decision regarding transgender athletes in women’s sports.
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One woman covered her face as she shed tears in front of the Supreme Court.
Macy Charles, a former NCAA volleyball player at Lee University, said she spent four years playing against a transgender athlete and appealing to the organization to change its policy.
“We saw a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court that upheld that sex matters with these things,” said Petty-Charles. “Biology matters and how women, frankly, are real.”
Elsewhere, a group of seven people, some wearing shirts with “LULAC” across their chests, a reference to the League of United Latin American Citizens, huddled and read another decision on a phone. The group started cheering and jumping for joy as the court upheld birthright citizenship.
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Melvin Vazquez, 23, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, is a first-generation Mexican American from Dallas, with two older brothers born outside the country. He said the decision meant better protection for his mixed-status family.
“Waiting here was nerve-racking, because it’s one of the last decisions to be released, but at that moment I was speechless,” Vazquez said. “I’m thankful and overall ecstatic.”
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