White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt fired back at Supreme Court justices following a hearing on the future of women’s sports earlier this week.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard two cases regarding the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports pertaining to students at the K-12 and college level.
During the hearings, justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson pressed the state attorneys arguing to keep women’s sport biologically female.
In retaliation, Leavitt accused those justices of challenging biology over for what appeared to be at least a devil’s’ advocate play on their behalf.
‘I think, frankly, it was quite alarming to not only hear a couple of justices grapple over that basic fundamental biological fact that men and women are different but inherently equal, but we are certainly different, and women deserve such rights,’ Leavitt said.
‘We hope and expect that the Supreme Court will rule in the right way on this matter.,’ she added, when addressing the hearings during a briefing on Thursday.
