The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it will hear a pair of cases challenging state laws banning biological men from women’s sports in January, setting the date for arguments with implications for dozens of similar state laws.
The high court scheduled oral arguments for Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. for Jan. 13, 2026, meaning the justices will hear both the cases about transgender sports laws back-to-back.
In Little v. Hecox, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether Idaho’s law limiting women’s sports to biological women violates the 14th Amendment, and B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education deals with whether a similar West Virginia law violates Title IX or the equal protection clause.
Activists who filed the lawsuit in Little v. Hecox attempted to voluntarily dismiss the case at the federal district court after the Supreme Court agreed to review the case. The lower court denied the bid, and the justices will now hear oral arguments in the case.
The Supreme Court also announced that it scheduled arguments for the high-profile gun case Wolford v. Lopez for Jan. 20, 2026, while the high court will have arguments in an emergency docket case over President Donald Trump’s attempted firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook for cause.
In Wolford v. Lopez, the high court will look at whether a Hawaii law barring handgun owners who have a concealed carry permit from carrying their weapon on private property unless the owner, or manager of the property, has given the person “express authorization to carry a firearm on the property,” violates the Second Amendment. The case is one of two significant gun cases the justices have agreed to hear this term so far.
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With the Cook case, the high court took the unusual step of scheduling oral arguments for a dispute on its emergency docket. Trump has asked the Supreme Court to allow him to fire Cook, citing an accusation from Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte that she committed mortgage fraud as proper cause to do so under federal statute.
The Supreme Court will continue to hear arguments for this term through the end of April, with all rulings in the cases expected by the end of June.