Oct 28, 2023 · Becky Pepper-Jackson, 13, sat in a courtroom Friday morning while lawyers argued over a law in her home state of West Virginia that would ban her from running on the girls’ cross-country and...

Apr 17, 2024 · The plaintiff of the legal challenge, Becky Pepper-Jackson, sued West Virginia state authorities alongside her mother not long after the sports ban took effect. The eighth grader from Bridgeport, West Virginia, has competed in track and field competitions for over three seasons, according to court filings.

Apr 30, 2024 · Becky Pepper-Jackson, 13, competed in the Harris County Middle School Track and Field Championship on April 18, two days after a federal appeals court ruled West Virginia’s transgender sports...

Apr 23, 2024 · Two days after a federal appeals court upheld a trans athlete’s right to be on her middle-school track team, a 13-year-old eighth-grade trans girl named Becky Pepper-Jackson stepped into a...

Apr 21, 2024 · The case decided by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals focused on middle schooler Becky Pepper-Jackson, who was born male but identified as a girl from a very young age. By third grade, she...

Apr 17, 2024 · Thirteen-year-old trans track athlete Becky Pepper-Jackson sued the state over the law in 2021. A federal appeals court has ruled that a West Virginia law banning transgender girls from competing on girls’ sports teams violates the rights of a student who would have been kicked off of her middle school track and field team.

Apr 22, 2024 · “Five middle school female athletes in West Virginia refuse to throw shot put against male, Becky Pepper-Jackson. This comes just 2 days after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the...

Apr 19, 2024 · Becky Pepper-Jackson, according to filings in the court case, was born male but identified as a girl from a very young age. By third grade, she was living as a girl at home and told her...

Jul 22, 2021 · A federal judge ruled Wednesday that 11-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, a transgender girl, must be allowed to try out for the girls’ cross-country and track team at her school. West Virginia recently passed the “Save Women’s Sports Bill,” which prohibits transgender girls from participating on most girls’ sports teams.

Apr 6, 2023 · With two lonely dissents from the right-most side of the Supreme Court’s bench, 12-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson became the first transgender kid to receive the high court’s blessing, at least for now, to keep competing in her West Virginia school’s track team.