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# Maura Healey Won’t Say If She Agrees With Supreme Court Upholding Transgender Athlete Restrictions
- URL: https://www.newbostonpost.com/maura-healey-transgender-athlete-restrictions-scotus/
- Published: 2026-06-30T18:07:44.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-30T18:07:44.000Z
- Description: Gov. Maura Healey refused to say whether she agrees with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling upholding transgender athlete restrictions.
- Author: State House News Service
- Tags: News, Politics, Sports, Gender Identity, Massachusetts, #lead, #morning-bell, morning-bell

Alison Kuznitz  
State House News Service

Gov. Maura Healey said the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Tuesday to block President Trump's attempt to restrict birthright citizenship is a "good decision."

In a 6-3 opinion, the court struck down Trump's executive order from Jan. 20, 2025 that said children born in the United States to parents who are here unlawfully or temporarily do not qualify for citizenship under the 14th Amendment. Trump called his order, "Protecting the meaning and value of American citizenship."

"Birthright citizenship, that's Donald Trump trying to rewrite the Constitution," Healey told reporters after an unrelated event Tuesday morning. "The Supreme Court said to him, 'You can't do that.' So that's a good decision, and we'll move forward from there."

In a Truth Social post, Trump acknowledged the birthright citizenship "loss" and said "we will work to correct in Congress."

In a statement, Attorney General Andrea Campbell called the ruling a "razor thin victory."

"That should remind all of us that our rights and freedoms are not self-executing," Campbell said. "Some continue to test the limits of our Constitution in an effort to narrow who belongs in this country, who gets to fully participate in our democracy, and who gets to make those decisions."

The court on Tuesday also upheld state laws that exclude transgender athletes from playing on women's and girls' sports teams. Healey, who said she still needed to read the decision, told reporters, "What I do know, and I'm a former student athlete, is that we want all people who are playing sports to be safe and be able to play sports in a way that's done safely."

Healey attributed the cases, tied to bans in Idaho and West Virginia, to Trump's "continued effort to politicize transgender people" and said that "transgender people in Massachusetts will continue to receive the full protections of anti-discrimination law here."

The governor also indicated the state and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association may have discretion over the ruling's local impact.

"In terms of how this plays out in sports — again, I have to look at the decision — but also that's something for the MIAA because I think the decision also left it to state agencies and authorities to sort through that," Healey said.