Donald Trump takes vicious swipe at Supreme Court justices for supporting trans athletes in bombshell hearing

Donald Trump claimed the US Supreme Court ‘should lose a lot of credibility’ over the ongoing hearings on transgender athletes in women’s sports. 

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 last week. 

Addressing the hearings during a White House press conference on Tuesday, the president perceived some justices to have been ‘fighting’ to keep ‘men playing in women’s sports.’

‘Big Supreme Court case. I mean, I can’t believe it. Some of the justices were fighting hard for men to be able to play in women’s sports. A couple of them, I can’t imagine it. But I think anybody that rules that way should lose a lot of credibility. But we banned men from playing in women’s sports,’ Trump said.

‘All you have to do is look at the records, look at weightlifting records, look at swimming records, look at track and field. This is not fair. It’s very demeaning to women.’

Trump earlier took a swipe at former President Joe Biden and his administration for their stance in supporting trans athlete participation in women’s sport. 

‘The past administration, they had no clue or they were really bad, but they basically had no clue,’ Trump said. ‘But they did have, a concept. I mean, they’re still trying to sell the idea of men playing in women’s sports. 

‘You saw that in the Supreme Court. I mean, some of those justices were fighting for them, too. They were fighting for them. But you saw that just the other day in the Supreme Court, men playing in women’s sport doesn’t work.’

The Supreme Court heard opening arguments in the Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. cases, which address the constitutional rights of states to ban biological males from women’s and girl’s sports.

Lower courts ruled for the transgender athletes who challenged the state bans in Idaho and West Virginia, two of more than 24 Republican-led states to pass such restrictions.

Nonetheless, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court gave no indication after over three hours of arguments that it would follow suit.

Instead, at least five of the six conservatives on the nine-member court indicated they would rule that the laws don’t violate either the Constitution or the landmark Title IX law, which prohibits discrimination in education and has produced dramatic growth in girls’ and women’s sports.

Furthermore, the Supreme Court majority also appeared swayed by the arguments of cisgender athletes who have been accused of bigotry for opposing transgender participation in female sports.

However, liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson had pressed the state attorneys arguing to keep women’s sport biologically female.

In retaliation, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt last week 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 last Thursday.

The White House mouthpiece was asked by conservative activist and former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines whether Donald Trump’s administration was prepared to take action against states who would not comply with a potential future ruling from the Supreme Court’s to ban transgender athletes from women’s sport.  

‘Absolutely,’ Leavitt responded. 

‘The administration … [has] taken action on a number of fronts against these states who are failing to uphold the president’s executive orders and this administration’s policy of simply protecting women and women’s sports and women’s private spaces. We’ve gone to the mat with large universities in this country, as well, to try to fight for what’s right and what’s just for women in this country.

‘I think the president speaks on common sense on this issue, that women’s sports and private spaces should be protected and that there are two genders, there are two sexes – that is not something we should be afraid to say in this country.’

President Trump signed an executive order banning trans athletes from women’s sports called ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports’ back in February 2025. 

According to the Supreme Court, 30 states have restrictions on transgender athletes participating against girls and women. However, several Democratic-led states chose to ignore Trump’s executive order last year.

In May, the president threatened to pull federal funding in California if the state did not follow the order, before suing its Department of Education when they refused to do so.

The lawsuit filed by the Justice Department said California’s trans athlete stance violated Title IX, the federal law that bans discrimination in education based on sex. 

The department also claimed the state’s policies ‘are not only illegal and unfair but also demeaning, signaling to girls that their opportunities and achievements are secondary to accommodating boys.’

Meanwhile, US Attorney General Pam Bondi warned Minnesota and Maine, along with California, that they could also face challenges by the federal government over allowing transgender athletes to participate in women’s sports.