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The Supreme Court upheld anti-trans athlete laws in the recent Little v. Hecox<\/em> and West Virginia v. BPJ<\/em> decisions, declaring that Title IX, the bedrock of gender-based protections in public schools, does not extend to transgender student athletes. On its surface, the rulings are narrower than the decision many activists and scholars had feared. They target school sports in Idaho and West Virginia but sidestep broader questions about trans rights under the 14th Amendment, questions probably best left unanswered by a right-wing bench.<\/p>\n

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But the consequences of the rulings will go beyond those two states and beyond sports. The court\u2019s decisions are part of a global campaign to legislate and litigate trans people out of public life. This was made clear during oral arguments back in January; attorneys and justices alike scrutinized the bodies of trans girls, debating the size and shape of their organs, muscles, and bones. Yet the banality of the scene\u2014procedural buzzwords, shuffling papers, cordial back-and-forths couched with honorifics\u2014almost obfuscated the violence of it all.<\/p>\n

Alan Hurst, then Idaho\u2019s solicitor general, pose \u201ca real threat\u201d to safety and fairness in women\u2019s athletics. \u201cWe cite Your Honors to the U.N. Special Rapporteur\u2019s report that says 600 women have lost 890 medals in 29 different sports,\u201d he said, arguing that ( presumed) cisgender women are losing en masse to transgender ones and that trans women and girls don\u2019t belong in women\u2019s spaces.<\/p>\n

The United Nations official in question is Reem Alsalem\u2014the special rapporteur on violence against women and girls. She filed an with the court supporting trans-exclusionary laws. This comes after years of pushing reports at the United Nations that painted trans women as a danger to their peers. The court\u2019s final opinion echoed the language in her brief.<\/p>\n

Hurst\u2019s comment about Alsalem\u2019s work has a few problems. Among them: The numbers are not particularly meaningful or accurate. But facts have never stopped Alsalem. Through her writings to the United Nations, she has become a leading mouthpiece for far-right propaganda and misinformation about trans people, propelling untruths into policy and law and declaring war, in her words, on the concept of \u201cgender equality\u201d itself.<\/p>\n

The medals statistic cited by Hurst has been repeatedly debunked. In April 2025, a segment from Last Week Tonight With John Oliver<\/em> broke down the dubious methodology behind it, and reporting from Erin in the Morning<\/em> further found that the list of trans medal winners on which it is based contains numerous errors and misleading practices\u2014such as the inclusion of women like Imane Khelif, who is not trans, and counting as \u201csports\u201d poker and competitive video gaming. Erin in the Morning<\/em>\u2019s investigations also found the anonymous website that developed the stat emerged from an online forum of anti-trans extremists who had been banned from other social-media platforms due to hate speech.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Alsalem cited the medals statistic again in her amicus brief with the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

In that brief, she argues that transgender girls should not be awarded the same protections as cisgender girls. Instead, she proposes that all sports have a strictly defined women\u2019s category and an \u201copen\u201d category, which would require grouping transgender and intersex girls with men\u2014and she wants this separation codified in law.<\/p>\n

The document makes clear that Alsalem\u2019s recommendations were \u201cneither sought nor given by the United Nations.\u201d And the reports she writes for the United Nations are technically informational, not authoritative; they do not represent the views of the United Nations. This distinction is often lost on the countless lawmakers, media outlets, and laypersons who see her work on UN letterhead or her posts from a UN X account and understandably assume that they are consuming information from a credible source.<\/p>\n

Bearing the apparent imprimatur of the United Nations, Alsalem\u2019s work is providing the veneer of legitimacy to anti-trans disinformation. The elevation of her work before the Supreme Court shows both the effectiveness of her project and how it undermines the rights of the very group she is duty-bound to protect: women and girls.<\/p>\n

Alsalem proudly calls herself a \u201cnormal non-deranged woman from the UN.\u201d (It was her longtime bio on X.) This is already controversial. For starters, as many of her critics emphasize, this makes it sound like she is employed by or represents the views of the United Nations. She does not. Alsalem was appointed in 2021 by the Human Rights Council. All rapporteurs are non-salaried human rights consultants, each with their own thematic or geographic specialty. Alsalem has conducted critical research on topics like femicide and women facing genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n

But 15 months into her first term, Alsalem began to use her association with the United Nations to try to block the expansion of trans rights. In 2022, she sent a formal letter to government officials opposing a Scottish bill facilitating trans people\u2019s ability to obtain accurate legal identification. Since then, Alsalem has repeatedly bolstered attacks on gender equality across the globe, including through her UN-commissioned reports\u2014one of which was a 2024 treatise on women in sports, which appears to be what pushed the warped statistic about medals into the mainstream.<\/p>\n

In June 2025, Alsalem took the stage at the UN headquarters in Geneva, a sprawling art deco structure, to present her report on \u201cSex-Based Violence Against Women and Girls: New Frontiers and Emerging Issues.\u201d By the time Alsalem stepped up to the dais, hundreds of human rights and medical groups had already denounced what they characterized as an abuse of her position. One statement, whose signatories include Planned Parenthood Global and the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association, accused Alsalem of \u201cmanipulating data\u201d and \u201cundermining\u201d long-held policy reforms. Another statement cosigned by Amnesty International says her report \u201cmisuses legal, scientific, and testimonial evidence, ignoring established methodologies for interpreting human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSex is as binary as it gets,\u201d Alsalem told the assembly. This, according to the World Health Organization, , most if not all other rapporteurs, and essentially every other part of the , is false. Her report derides the concept of \u201cgender identity,\u201d which she falsely describes as \u201cthe feeling that some individuals have of not identifying with the sex observed at birth.\u201d (Broadly speaking, that is called being transgender; \u201cgender identity\u201d is something all people have, regardless of whether they are transgender or cisgender.)<\/p>\n

Alsalem argues against the idea of \u201cgender equality\u201d altogether. She wants to replace it with the term \u201cequality between men and women.\u201d Enshrining this binary into international law would strip transgender and intersex people from gender-based protections, which Alsalem says should be replaced by the term \u201csex-based protections.\u201d The Trump administration has followed suit. This is a talking point from the global \u201canti-gender\u201d movement, which opposes the idea of gender itself. Human Rights Watch has called it a \u201cglobal conspiracy myth,\u201d and its roots go back to the 1980s when the Catholic Church feared that a gay and feminist movement was undermining the traditional family. This fantasy of a global gender cabal underlies the Supreme Court\u2019s anti-trans ruling in BPJ <\/em>and Hecox<\/em>, as well as in Skrmetti<\/em>, the 2025 decision that limited trans youth\u2019s access to healthcare.<\/p>\n

\u201cAttacks on gender\u2014including on women existing outside certain roles or LGBTQI+ people existing at all\u2014are a bellwether for rising authoritarian practices,\u201d Tarah Demant, the senior director at Amnesty International researching authoritarianism, told me. \u201cWhen authoritarians or those in power attack \u2018woke gender\u2019 or LGBTQI+ people and their rights or women\u2019s rights or sexual and reproductive rights, it\u2019s the government and people in power exerting control over your body and life\u2014defining who is valuable, who is fully human, and who gets rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

One would assume the reports of a UN special rapporteur would rely on rigorous academic research and reputable newsrooms. After all, the special rapporteur\u2019s code of conduct instructs its purveyors to use \u201creliable sources\u201d and to \u201cbe guided by the principles of discretion, transparency, impartiality, and evenhandedness.\u201d But in an article published in Sexual Health Matters<\/em> in 2024, scholars criticize Alsalem for her \u201codd\u201d and \u201copaque citations\u201d such as her repeated and vague references to \u201cexpert consults,\u201d taking quotes out of their context, and using testimonies \u201cin direct opposition to what these submissions call for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her sourcing sometimes traces back to far-right and anti-trans outlets and tabloids like Reduxx<\/em>, the New York Post<\/em>, and the Daily Mail<\/em> or known anti-trans groups like Women\u2019s Declaration International and the LGB Alliance. In one such case, she asserted that presumed-cis women were leaving women\u2019s sports en masse over trans athletes. The citation linked back to an article from an anti-trans group about a recreational swimming pond with trans-inclusive policies.<\/p>\n

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The interplay of her reports and the anti-trans media circuit creates a feedback loop, where far-right newsrooms and groups publish anti-trans propaganda, receive validation from Alsalem, and then spit it back out as if the source were the United Nations itself.<\/p>\n

Well-known extremist groups, such as the Alliance Defending Freedom, have been in lockstep with Alsalem. She hosted the ADF, an evangelical legal advocacy group that the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated an anti-LGBTQ hate organization, on the official UN streaming platform for a discussion on the \u201cissue\u201d of trans athletes. And on X, she\u2019s posted that gender-affirming care has \u201cmutilated\u201d and \u201cdechilded\u201d a generation, comparing it to the mass murder of children in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an extraordinary thing,\u201d said Beirne Roose-Snyder, a senior policy fellow at the Council for Global Equality. \u201cFor a lot of people who are very rules-bound and technical experts, you see a lot of anxiety and a lot of uncertainty about how to respond, because I don\u2019t know that we\u2019ve seen a special procedure mandate holder use their mandate to harm so proactively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alsalem denounces anyone who calls her an \u201cextremist,\u201d but she advocates for laws that are even more restrictive than the ones in the most right-wing US states. In a 2025 report on \u201csex-based\u201d violence, she calls for \u201call actors\u201d to ban youth even from \u201csocial transitioning\u201d\u2014apparently meaning that she wants the government to prohibit children from being addressed by their preferred pronouns and name. She also seems to imply that those assigned female at birth cannot \u201cmeaningfully consent\u201d to transitioning. On the other hand, she often describes trans women as sexual predators attempting to insinuate themselves into lesbian spaces and women\u2019s facilities.<\/p>\n

In e-mail correspondence for this piece, Alsalem denied that her work is hateful or factually unsound. In spring 2025, during initial reporting for Erin in the Morning <\/em>on the medals statistic, she wrote to me that she didn\u2019t want to ban trans women from sports; she just wants to ban them from women\u2019s sports and to deploy sex tests as a tool of enforcement. Her report acknowledges the violent history of sex tests but says that some athletes may have their sex \u201ccontested,\u201d requiring a \u201cnon-invasive\u201d investigation into their DNA.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s such an immediate and direct attack on women to have this position that she takes,\u201d explained Anima Adjepong, head of the gender studies program at the University of Cincinnati, who specializes in the politics of sport. They also run the nonprofit Silent Majority Ghana and have a forthcoming book on women\u2019s sports in the region. They warned that sex testing disproportionately harms women of color.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe history of sex testing within sports\u2014they kept having to change it over and over again, because there\u2019s not a clear, scientific, \u2018answer\u2019 for what constitutes a man,\u201d Adjepong said. \u201cAnd of course, actually, that\u2019s not what they\u2019re looking at, right? There\u2019s not a clear answer for: What constitutes a woman?\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the criticisms of Alsalem\u2019s conclusions are matched by questions over the sources she uses to reach them. Via e-mail, I asked Alsalem why she cited Southern Poverty Law Center\u2013designated hate and extremist groups in her work. She replied, \u201cYou may be interested to know that the Human Rights Council Presidency has indicated that defaming, attacking organizations or individuals that engage with the Human Rights Council\u2026will not be tolerated for whatever reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

Much of her response to me was recycled later in a near-identical reply to Last Week Tonight With John Oliver<\/em>, the full version of which you can read here.<\/p>\n

But even by her own description of her duties, she violated UN instructions. She told me that as per guidelines for special rapporteurs, she used generic citations to protect transgender individuals from being identified. But her reports link to Fox News and anti-trans outlets and sources that reveal detailed information about people, including their deadnames. In other citations, she failed to redact identifying information about transgender student-athletes\u2014the redactions can be removed simply by highlighting the text. This functionally outs these individuals on a global stage.<\/p>\n

Still, Alsalem rejects the idea she wasn\u2019t living up to her duties. \u201cOnly the UN Human Rights Council can determine whether or not she violated her duties,\u201d she wrote to me. \u201cYou can make a complaint to the council. Otherwise, it is fair to say you are engaging in misinformation and disinfomeation.[sic]\u201d<\/p>\n

The process for pursuing such complaints, however, is obscure if not nonexistent, and many human rights experts emphasized that a push to reprimand Alsalem is potentially dangerous. Special rapporteurs are central to the work of the Human Rights Council, and if one goes down, it could put targets on others. Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories, already faces death threats and harassment campaigns.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a really sensitive topic,\u201d said a staffer from Transgender Europe and Central Asia who asked not to be named because of hostility toward the LGBTQ community in their region. \u201cNot only because of the subject matter,\u201d they said, but because the institutions upholding the special rapporteurs\u2019 work are \u201cconstantly at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the majority opinion for Hecox<\/em>, Justice Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s reasoning is similar to that of Alsalem and her anti-gender movement: \u201cAllowing a biological male athlete to compete on a girls\u2019 team necessarily<\/em> displaces or disadvantages a female athlete, replacing her on the roster, knocking her out of the starting lineup, reducing her playing time, depriving her of a medal, and the like.\u201d<\/p>\n

On July 9, Alsalem welcomed the court\u2019s decision, saying, \u201cThe experiences of women and girls who have lost places on teams, podium positions, scholarships and opportunities deserve to be heard and taken seriously.\u201d She urged states, educational institutions, and sporting bodies to ensure that the ruling is applied across the United States. She also reposted anti-trans rhetoric from Justice Clarence Thomas that quoted from an account named \u201cTERFs \u2018r\u2019 us.\u201d (TERF is shorthand for \u201ctrans exclusionary radical feminist).\u201d<\/p>\n

The full impact of the decision is yet to be seen, but experts warned me that the harms will go beyond the trans community. \u201cPitting groups against each other creates division, and perhaps the biggest influence that we see here is that many people believe this is an issue about trans people,\u201d said Erika Castellanos, executive director of Global Action for Trans Equality. She pointed out that many of the same groups attacking trans rights are also targeting reproductive rights, queer rights, women\u2019s rights, and free speech.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rhetoric that the advancement of the rights of one group removes rights of another group is a misunderstanding of how the human rights ecosystem works,\u201d she said. \u201cEveryone is affected by this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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