The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld laws in Idaho and West Virginia that restrict participation in girls' and women's school sports to biological females, ruling the measures do not violate either the U.S. Constitution or the federal civil rights law known as Title IX.The decision marks the court's first major ruling on transgender participation in school athletics and is expected to affect similar laws already enacted in more than two dozen states.In a unanimous 9-0 ruling on the Title IX question, the justices concluded that the Idaho and West Virginia laws are consistent with the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education. In a separate 6-3 decision, the court's conservative majority held that the laws also do not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th
