The Wisconsin legislation in question is the Protect Women in Sports Act, introduced by Rep. Barbara Dittrich, R-Oconomowoc. The GOP package would prohibit trans athletes from playing on girls’ sports teams at the K-12 and collegiate levels.
Similar bills barring transgender athletes from equal participation on athletic teams are circling state legislatures in 25 other states as of early March, according to the ACLU. The protest comes as Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed the first anti-trans legislation of 2021 into law Thursday.
In an interview with The Badger Herald, University of Wisconsin graduate student and activist Jack Phillips said their main takeaway from the march was a sense of community and the feeling that the marchers were “all out here together.”