—Filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 supporting the Trump administration’s position that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act does not protect LGBTQ workers from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The Supreme Court ultimately ruled against this position in Bostock v. Clayton County.
—Pledged to appeal to the Supreme Court rulings that allowed a transgender girl to compete on her middle school’s track team and one that determined the state’s Medicaid health insurance program had to pay for gender-affirming surgeries. (Some treatments are covered and not at issue in the litigation.)
—Refuses to say whether Joe Biden won the 2020 race and has asserted, without basis, that there were “huge irregularities,” “significant irregularities,” and “very, very severe issues” relating to that vote.
—Suing to block the Biden administration’s new Title IX regulations that would protect transgender students from discrimination in schools receiving federal funding, along with some other Republican attorneys general.
—Campaign website describes him as “one of the nation’s most outspoken advocates against biological males playing sports with women” and says he’s a staunch supporter of the West Virginia Save Women’s Sports Act of 2021, which required that each athlete’s participation in official or unofficial school-sanctioned sporting and athletic events be “based on the athlete’s biological sex as indicated on the athlete’s original birth certificate issued at the time of birth.”