A federal lawsuit against Connecticut’s policy on transgender athletes, with legal backing from dozens of top female athletes, is on track to reach the Supreme Court. 

Four female track-and-field athletes are suing the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference after losing athletic events to biologically male athletes who identify as transgender women. The lawsuit was previously dismissed by two lower courts but was revived last week when all 15 active judges on the Second Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals at Manhattan declared that the female athletes were deprived of their Title IX right to “equal athletic opportunity.”