Attorney General Steve Marshall recently led a 26-state brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court to overturn a lower court’s ruling against an Idaho law that prohibits biological males from competing in women’s sports.
Several of Alabama’s federal lawmakers were swift to criticize the International Olympic Committee for allowing a boxer who was previously banned for "failing genetic testing” to beat a female competitor in dramatic fashion at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Alabama state director for the Human Rights Campaign responded to the signing of House Bill 261, which protects college athletes.
Governor Kay Ivey corrected a tweet from ESPN on Tuesday falsely claiming the recently signed Alabama law prohibiting biological men from participating in female collegiate sports would prohibit women from competing on female sports teams.