The Arizona House, made up of 31 Republicans, just passed a bill that will ban “transgender girls” from participating in female sports:
THE HILL – The Arizona House of Representatives passed a ban on students who are transgender girls from participating in girls sports at schools across the state Tuesday.
The bill, H.B. 2706, requires that teams in the state must be “expressly designated” for “males, men or boys;” “females, women or girls;” or “co-ed or mixed sex.” Athletic teams “designated for females, women or girls may not be open to students of the male sex,” under the proposal.
The bill passed along a party-line vote of 31-29 on Tuesday, and it will now be sent to the state Senate. It will apply to both public and private schools, as well as community colleges and universities.
The bill, introduced by GOP state Rep. Nancy Barto, originally required that students get a sworn doctor’s statement detailing their genetic makeup, “internal and external reproductive anatomy” and “normal endogenously produced levels of testosterone.”
However, Barto later amended the bill to only require a genetic test, if a student’s sex is disputed, the Arizona Republic reported. Democratic lawmakers called the original proposal as the “show me your genitals law.”
The state senate also has a majority of 17 Republicans versus 13 Democrats, so unless there are any squishes on the issue, the bill should pass there as well.
Democratic state legislators have criticized the bill, arguing that the measure is an overreach by the state into a choice that should be left to students, their families and schools, according to the outlet.
“We’re policing gender,” Minority Leader Charlene Fernandez (D) said, the Arizona Republic reported. “We’re trying to decide if that person is feminine enough or not feminine enough and we’re using that to justify subjecting our transgender athletes to additional barriers to participating in sports.”
“We’re policing gender”…that is sheer poppycock. Arizona isn’t policing gender, they are policing unfairness. Girls should not be compelled to compete against boys just because they wear a wig and a dress and identify as female. It’s completely unfair and I couldn’t agree more with Arizona Republicans for taking this stand to protect girls and women who want to compete on a level playing field.
I’m sure that if this passes and is signed into law it will be challenged in the courts by leftist groups, who apparently have moved on from fighting for feminism to fighting for trans-feminism.