Florida Home passes invoice to ban transgender females from competing in women’ sports activities
Up to date: 7:05 AM CDT Apr 15, 2023
SUMMER: BREAKING NEWS AT 5:00, A DEBATE OVER A TRANSGENDER SPORTS BILL AMONG FLORIDA LAWMAKERS HAS COME TO A CONCLUSION. STEWART: AT ISSUE, SHOULD TRANSGENDER ATHLETES BE ALLOWED TO COMPETE WITH THE GENDER WITH WHICH THEY IDENTIFY? WESH 2’S AMANDA DUKES JOINS US NOW WITH THE LATE-BREAKING DETAILS. AMANDA: THE FLORIDA HOUSE WAS POISED TO PASS A MEASURE THAT WOULD BAR TRANSGENDER FEMALES FROM PARTICIPATING IN GIRLS’ AND WOMEN’S HIGH-SCHOOL AND COLLEGE SPORTS. THE PROPOSAL WOULD MAKE PARTICIPATION IN ATHLETICS CONTINGENT ON DETERMINING A STUDENTS’ BIOLOGICAL SEX, WHICH IS A DISPUTED TERM THAT REFERS TO THE SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH. HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARGUE THE MEASURE TARGETS ALREADY VULNERABLE TRANSGENDER TEENS AND ADULTS. REPUBLICANS, WHO HOLD A HUGE MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE, SUPPORT THE BILL, SAYING IT WILL PRESERVE FAIRNESS IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. >> ALLOWING BIOLOGICAL MALES TO COMPETE IN WOMEN’S SPORTS DIMINISHES THAT EQUALITY AND TAKES AWAY FROM THE ORIGINAL INTENT OF TITLE 9. THAT’S WHAT THIS BILL IS ABOUT. IT’S ABOUT GIVING WOMEN AND GIRLS AN EQUAL CHANCE TO SUCCEED. >> LET THESE KIDS PLAY. LET US SAY WITH ONE VOICE NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, OR WHERE YOU ARE FROM, OR WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE, YOU ARE LOVED AND WELCOMED IN AMERICA. AMANDA: OPPONENTS OF THE MEASURE ALSO ARGUED THAT IT WILL HAVE A SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC IMPACT ON THE STATE. THAT IS BECAUSE OF THE POTENTIAL FOR SPORTS TOURNAMENTS AND CHAMPIONSHIPS TO BE MOVED ELSEWHERE BY ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE NCAA. THE BILL HAS PASSED THE HOUSE
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Florida Home passes invoice to ban transgender females from competing in women’ sports activities
Up to date: 7:05 AM CDT Apr 15, 2023
The Florida Home on Wednesday handed a invoice that might ban transgender females from competing women’ and girls’s highschool and school sports activities. The invoice handed with a vote of 77-40 after a heated debate. The invoice would make participation in athletics contingent on figuring out a college students’ “organic intercourse,” which is a disputed time period that refers back to the intercourse assigned at delivery.Home Democrats argue the measure targets already-vulnerable transgender teenagers and adults. Republicans, who maintain an enormous majority within the Home, assist the invoice saying it’s going to protect equity in ladies’s sports activities. Opponents of the measure additionally argued that it’s going to have a big financial impression on the state, with the potential for sports activities tournaments and championships to be moved elsewhere by organizations similar to NCAA if this measure is handed.
The Florida Home on Wednesday handed a invoice that might ban transgender females from competing women’ and girls’s highschool and school sports activities.
The invoice handed with a vote of 77-40 after a heated debate.
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The invoice would make participation in athletics contingent on figuring out a college students’ “organic intercourse,” which is a disputed time period that refers back to the intercourse assigned at delivery.
Home Democrats argue the measure targets already-vulnerable transgender teenagers and adults. Republicans, who maintain an enormous majority within the Home, assist the invoice saying it’s going to protect equity in ladies’s sports activities.
Opponents of the measure additionally argued that it’s going to have a big financial impression on the state, with the potential for sports activities tournaments and championships to be moved elsewhere by organizations similar to NCAA if this measure is handed.
