By Michael W. Chapman | April 19, 2021 | 10:53am EDT
Real women playing field hockey. (Getty Images)
(CNS News) The Florida House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly (70-40) on Apr. 14 for a bill that would prohibit transgender females (biological males) from participating in real girls sports in the state. A similar bill is under review in the Florida Senate.
The Florida Legislature is following the path already set by Idaho, Arkansas, and Mississippi, which have pro-female, same-sex sports laws on the books. Reportedly, another 30 states are looking into similar legislation.
Transgender female (biological male) athletes. (Getty Images)
Florida s Fairness in Women s Sports Act, HB 1475, says its intent is to maintain opportunities for female athletes to demonstrate their skill, strength, and athletic abilities while also providing them with opportunities to obtain recognition and accolades, college scholarships, and the nume
By Michael W. Chapman | April 16, 2021 | 11:37am EDT
June Eastwood, center, a transgender female (biological male) track athlete. (Getty Images)
(CNS News) Following on the legislative heels of Idaho, Mississippi, and Arkansas, the Alabama Senate voted overwhelmingly to prohibit transgender females, who are biological males, from competing in women s sports programs at K-12 schools.
The Senate voted on Thursday 25-5 to pass the bill; the legislation passed in the House in March 74-19. It now goes to Republican Gov. Kay Ivey, who apparently has not indicated whether she will sign it or not.
Lindsay Hecox, a transgender female (biological male) track athlete. (Getty Images)
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I am writing to express my strong reservations against the purely speculative and hysterical comments against transwomen athletes made by State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, R-76th, in the article, “Borowicz, others seek to ban transgender girls from sports,” in The Express on April 6.
Rep. Borowicz admits that an award she received as an MVP when she was 17-years-old “boosted her confidence as a woman athlete.”
That is absolutely right.
Athletics and sports are life-savers for young people.
Especially, as many transgender athletes from Andraya Yearwood, Terry Miller, Rachel Mckinnon et al have consistently pointed out, gender-queer athletes look towards their sports for sustaining them through all the hate, the exclusions, the denials, and the damages that an ignorant, homophobic and transphobic society throws their way on a daily basis. Their ability to play a sport oftentimes becomes their only safe space. These young men and women fight terrible odds to ach
North Carolina Republicans introduce bill to ban doctors from performing gender confirmation surgery on people under age 21 Marquise Francis
Three Republican lawmakers in North Carolina introduced a controversial bill this week that would ban doctors from performing gender confirmation surgery for transgender youth under the age of 21.
Senate Bill 514, introduced on Monday by state senators Ralph Hise, Warren Daniel and Norman Sanderson would make it illegal for people under 21 to receive transitional health care. The bill would supersede North Carolina’s statute that designates people over the age of 18 as adults and able to act without the consent of their parents.
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