Republican state legislatures in more than a dozen states are advancing bills that would bar transgender women and girls from participating in women’s and girls sports at the youth, high school and collegiate levels. It’s an aggressive effort to strip rights from LGBTQ people on the state level that runs counter to President Joe Biden’s attempts to advance equality from the White House. GOP-controlled legislative chambers in Mississippi, Utah, Montana and North Dakota have all approved legislation this year to prohibit transgender students from competing in sports that match their gender identity. Republican lawmakers have introduced similar bills in Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Texas and Tennessee, where Republican Gov. Bill Lee last week declared that trans athletes would “destroy women’s sports” if they are allowed to compete. Several of those bills have already advanced through legislative committees, although others have already run into heated opposition that may succeed in thwarting them, and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) has said that he would not sign the bill that passed the state House there. The conservative push follows the first-in-the-nation passage of a law barring trans athletes from girls and women’s sports in Idaho last year. Equality advocates say the bills are actually a next, desperate attempt to restrict LGBTQ rights after other efforts ― including supposed “religious freedom” laws like the one Indiana approved in 2015. Kate Oakley, the state legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign said “It’s not about any one of these issues actually being itself a real problem. They keep trying to find the thing that is going to make people afraid. And this is where they’ve settled, last year and this year, on these anti-trans bills that are targeting youth in particular.” The Equality Act debate will begin this week and will directly affect these state legislative laws.
Republican Legislatures Are Trying To Ban Transgender Athletes From Women’s Sports
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