Huffington Post: Every Child In America Is Less Safe Because Of What Happened Tuesday
June 30. 2026
Senior Attorney Kel O’Hara is featured in a Huffington Post article about broader implications of today’s Supreme Court ruling on both transgender and cisgender students:
“I am absolutely concerned that this ruling opens the door to more intrusive scrutiny to all students that don’t fit gender norms, in particular gender nonconforming and Black students,” Kel O’Hara, a senior attorney at Equal Rights Advocates, told HuffPost Tuesday afternoon.
O’Hara says the use of the term “biological sex” reflects that the justices are choosing to interpret Title IX with an outdated definition of sex as it was understood in 1972, when it was enacted by Congress as sex assigned at birth — and not with the more recent understanding of biology, which illustrates a diversity among gender and sex.
“The policing of gender will now be allowed to stand in schools,” O’Hara said. “My prediction is that given that particular [Idaho] law was challenged and upheld, that will signal an increased reliance on medical verification as an enforcement mechanism.”
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