After more Supreme Court rulings on Tuesday, including a decision to allow states to ban biological men from playing in women’s sports, MS NOW legal reporter Lisa Rubin praised the written opinion for its words of “respect” for transgender athletes. But later, she said female athletes’ tactics in the controversy have ‘villainized’ the biological males in women’s sports. She even commented on young athletes' cheers outside the court, with a warning that their “feeling of victory” could bleed into “ostracizing.” After the decision was released, Rubin first said the court “fetishizes history,” as she explained how the court said the original text of Title IX was based on biological sex since it was written in 1972.   In more response to the SCOTUS decision on transgender athletes, MS NOW's Lisa Rubin said the court "fetishizes history" as she read the majority's interpretation of Title IX. pic.twitter.com/OkVBHp4B0X — Nick (@nspin310) June 30, 2026   But a few minutes after the initial discussion of the court’s interpretation of Title IX, Rubin returned to the actual written opinion in the cases released by the court. She said, “the majority wants to make sure that even as they're ruling against both of these athletes, they want to make sure that it's conveyed to the public that they don't mean any disrespect, and they don't always do something like this.” After she conveyed the Supreme Court’s respectful remarks in its decision, she read one part aloud which noted the athletes are mostly teenagers and people in their 20s as she continued to read, “Their desire to compete warrants respect. No student athlete on either side of the issue, whether a biological female or transgender, deserves to be ostracized or vilified.“ Rubin then turned to discuss the “women athletes in particular,” who she described as those “who are born female and present as female,” and said the court decision is different from athletes who, “sort of villainize some of the people who are like the plaintiffs in this case.”   In response to SCOTUS’s ruling that allows states to ban transgender athletes from sports, MS NOW's Lisa Rubin was struck by the written opinion and said it was different from “women athletes in particular” who “sort of villainize some of the people who are like the plaintiffs in… pic.twitter.com/2a6I2VKype — Nick (@nspin310) June 30, 2026   Fill-in host Antonia Hylton, after Rubin mentioned women’s athletes' views on transgender athletes, agreed and responded, “Yeah,” before Rubin continued. Rubin then mentioned the cheers outside the court from female athletes, who she now called “biologically female athletes who compete as women,” and said they are “feeling like they are victorious in the moment.” But she then said the feeling of victory could “bleed over” into something else: “That feeling of victory can very easily bleed over into the sort of ostracizing that the majority is talking about.” Rubin closed and continued to say she was struck by the court’s respect: I find it notable that they go out of their way to say, we're reaching this result on legal grounds. But make no mistake, the people who are living their lives as trans women and trans men, they deserve your respect. Their desire to play sports and compete on the playing field is genuine. That strikes me. That sticks with me. Apparently, according to MS NOW, blame should be placed on women’s athletes, like some of those cheering outside the court, because they “villainize” the biological males who competed in their sports. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s Money, Power, Politics w/ Stephanie Ruhle June 30, 2026 10:10:53 AM Eastern LISA RUBIN: Yeah. Well, I'm looking now at some of the aspects of the opinion. And so let's start with the majority opinion where they're interpreting Title IX first. That's the statute that forbids gender discrimination or other forms of discrimination in educational opportunity. And they say “the term sex in the 1972 Title IX statute and surrounding amendments and regulations cannot plausibly be interpreted to refer to anything other than biological sex, the ordinary meaning of the term sex at the time of enactment.” And let me just pause there for a second, because this is a court that fetishizes history. History at the time of enactment- UNKNOWN: What does that mean? RUBIN: - meaning they're obsessed with what something means at the time a statute is enacted, at the time a constitutional provision comes into play. So, whether it's we're talking about 1866, in the birthright citizenship context, or we're talking about 1972, when Title IX was passed, this court is always going to go back to what they consider the original meaning of a term at the time that a statute or a constitutional provision was put into play. (...) 10:20:07 AM Eastern LISA RUBIN: There's one thing here that Fallon Gallagher has pointed out to me that I think is so important and so smart, which is that the majority wants to make sure that even as they're ruling against both of these athletes, they want to make sure that it's conveyed to the public that they don't mean any disrespect, and they don't always do something like this. And so I want to read aloud from the ruling. “In so ruling, we emphasize one last point. Most of the biological female and transgender student athletes who are involved in transgender sports disputes around the country are teenagers or in their early 20s. Those student athletes want to play sports. Their desire to compete warrants respect. No student athlete on either side of the issue, whether a biological female or transgender, deserves to be ostracized or vilified.“ And I think that's a really interesting comment by the majority, because you have seen a number of athletes, women athletes in particular, who are born female and present as female, sort of villainize some of the people who are like the plaintiffs in this case.  ANTONIA HYLTON: Yeah RUBIN: And Fallon was talking earlier about a demonstration at the court and hearing a cheer from biologically female athletes who compete as women, feeling like they are victorious in this moment. That feeling of victory can very easily bleed over into the sort of ostracizing that the majority is talking about.  I find it notable that they go out of their way to say, we're reaching this result on legal grounds. But make no mistake, the people who are living their lives as trans women and trans men, they deserve your respect. Their desire to play sports and compete on the playing field is genuine. That strikes me. That sticks with me. (...)