West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey joins 'Fox & Friends' to discuss the importance of the Supreme Court taking up the trans athlete issue and his predictions for the ruling.

In West Virginia v. B.P.J., West Virginia appealed a lower court’s ruling that said banning a transgender student from participating in sporting competitions violates the student’s rights. An appeals court ruled in the student’s favor, citing the Constitution’s equal protection clause and the Title IX sex discrimination in education law.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Thursday it will hear the cases of two transgender students who seek to play sports in their home states, which both ban transgender students from participating in gir