A transgender rights supporter takes part in a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments in a case on transgender health rights on Dec. 4, 2024, in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The cases, challenging state laws by GOP-led governments in Idaho and West Virginia, will decide whether discrimination based on gender identity violates federal civil rights laws.
But McClain, who spent almost a decade coaching girls' softball, said it was not an issue of left or right.
"This isn't a conservative-progressive [issue]. You can't put a label on it. The label is female versus male. Those are the labels you should be talking about," McClain said. "It's, does this Supreme Court recognize females?"
During her private life as a business owner before Congress, McClain said she also coached her daughter and other girls from when her child was nine through high school.
Demonstrators hold colored smoke devices during a rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, June 20, 2025. (Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images via AFP)
But people who support the bans, like McClain, have said it's a fight for women's rights.
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"Where all these feminists that fought so hard for women, for women's rights, for Title IX?" she asked.
"This is an attack on women. So you can stand with the transgenders, that's fine. You can be who you want to be, be transgender, if that's who you want to be. But when who you are decides to infringe on my rights, that's when I have a problem."
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