The lawyers arguing for men’s ability to compete in women’s sports have begun to realize they have a losing hand, and it’s making them desperate, according to a lawyer on the other side of the issue.

“I think the other side is starting to recognize they’re on the losing side of this issue culturally, politically, in every way,” Matt Sharp, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, told The Daily Signal in an interview Tuesday.

Sharp spoke after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two women’s sports cases—West Virginia v. P.B.J. and Little v. Hecox—where the American Civil Liberties Union, representing male athletes who claim to identify as women, is challenging the constitutionality of laws protecting women’s sports.

The ADF lawyer said one particular argument demonstrated pro-transgender lawyers’ desperation.

“They’re starting to make the case, ‘Well, we’re really only talking about boys that … have been on puberty blockers or hormones or something, so that there is no sports advantage,’” Sharp explained.

(After a diagnosis of gender dysphoria—the painful and persistent condition of identifying with the gender of the opposite sex—some doctors prescribe

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