Becky Pepper-Jackson, a transgender teen, stands at the center of a legal battle over transgender participation in West Virginia sports. West Virginia was among the first states to restrict some or all trans student athletes from playing on school sports teams consistent with their gender identities. A hearing in front of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals was the most recent update in her more than two-year legal battle, which began in May 2021, when she was 11, a month after West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed a bill that bars transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams in middle school, high school and college. The appeals court will decide whether the law will take effect, and its decision could also start a chain of events that could land Becky’s case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Becky has been allowed to run on her school’s cross country team and throw discus and shot put on the track and field team since the appeals court reinstated a previous injunction agai...