JAN CRAWFORD:
00:00:13
At the Supreme Court, the justices grappled this week with questions of discrimination and how to ensure fair competition.
BRETT KAVANAUGH:
00:00:21
I hate, hate that a kid who wants to play sports might not be able to play sports. Hate that. But a transgender girl will bump from the starting lineup, from playing time, from the team, from the all-league, will bump someone else.
JAN CRAWFORD:
00:00:40
Two transgender female athletes say because the bans exclude them from participation they violate the Constitution and a landmark 1972 law, Title IX, that's credited with leveling the playing field for girls' sports. But the states say transgender girls can still participate, just on the team of their biological sex at birth, male. Madison Kenyon and Mary Kate Marshall ran track and cross country at Idaho State University and competed against a transgender woman. I know it's not fair because I stepped on the line and was beat by a male and saw hundreds of other women be beat by a male. I mean, to wake up at 7:00 AM every single day, putting in workouts, running, going to the gym, and then to go to the race already knowing the outcome, it's absolutely deflating.
JAN CRAWFORD:
00:01:31
In California, a state without a ban, star transgender high school athlete AB Hernandez says she isn't taking anything away from anyone. They swear. I'm like this crazy danger to society, but I'm just a normal kid going to school playing sports.
JAN CRAWFORD:
00:01:47
The justices seemed inclined to uphold the bans but let other states, like California, continue to allow participation. Jan Crawford, CBS News, Washington.
