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Trey Dellinger

Trey Dellinger

Attorney and Senior Legal Fellow at AFA Action (American Family Association's government affairs affiliate); President of Dellinger Law and Policy, PLLC.

Aug 31, 2026

4:30
What are the options? What are states doing? What can we do to better protect kids online and actually empower and protect the rights of parents to educate and protect their children in the digital age, specifically when it comes to social media?
4:47
Yeah, sure.
4:48
Well, first off, we know, I think there's becoming an increasing awareness that social media is a huge threat to kids.
4:57
This is something that older generations, certainly my parents' generation and even my generation, we didn't grow up with it.
5:05
So we were kind of asleep to the threat.
5:08
We thought it was just like any other toy, so to speak, that kids would play with.
5:13
And we're finding out that this is a total game changer.
8:02
So what are some of the ways that states like Nebraska and others around the country might be able to find some success based on what we've seen thus far? Sure.
8:07
I guess I'm surprised how deep this battle runs, but it needs to play out, doesn't it? It does need
8:14
to play out.
8:14
Yeah.
8:16
To kind of cover a little background on these cases, I won't go too far into the weeds because these were two procedurally complicated and kind of legally complicated cases, but I'm going to try to kind of cut through all that jargon and kind of bottom line for your listeners and your viewers what the issues were in those cases.
8:34
To kind of simplify the factual presentation of those cases, in each of these cases what you had was a biological male who wanted to compete in women's sports because they quote unquote identified as female.
8:48
And the first case, the Little v. Hecox case, the transgender plaintiff brought that case saying that the ban on biological males competing in women's sports violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
9:11
In the second case, the BPJ case, West Virginia versus BPJ, in that case the transgender plaintiff was banned from competing in women's sports and they brought their claim under Title IX, the federal statute Title IX.

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