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Utah bill banning trans athletes in girls sports stalls
February 25, 2021 GMT
Senate President Stuart Adams opens the 2021 Utah Legislature general session in the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021.(Kristin Murphy/The Deseret News via AP)
Senate President Stuart Adams opens the 2021 Utah Legislature general session in the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021.(Kristin Murphy/The Deseret News via AP)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A proposal to ban transgender athletes from playing on girls sports teams is stalling in Utah, one of more than 20 states considering similar measures that opponents say would harm transgender teenagers.
GOP Utah gov says trans kids should play sports; legislature says unfair to girls Wed. February 24, 2021 6:59 AM by Gerald Farinas Salt Lake City - Gov. Spencer Cox (R-Utah) said that transgender students must be able to participate in the sports they want to play. He disagrees with a legislative plan that would ban all transgender children from playing in public middle, high school, and college athletics.
House Bill 302 was created by fellow Republican legislators, led by sponsor state Rep. Kera Birkeland of Morgan, Utah, as a reaction to transgender girls playing on girls teams.
Birkeland argues that persons born biologically male are disadvantaging biological girls when in athletic competition.
In the past few years, Utah has passed several pro-LGBTQ policies. This year, the Legislature considered two anti-trans bills that are both likely headed for defeat.
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People march in a pride parade in Salt Lake City on June 8, 2014. HB92 would have prevented gender confirmation treatments on minors under the age of sixteen in Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
A bill that would have made amendments to Utah’s current laws surrounding the healthcare of transgender youth failed to pass a Utah House committee.
HB92 is sponsored by Rep. Rex Shipp, R. Cedar City, and Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo. The bill would outlaw certain medical procedures on teenagers 16 and younger. The bill states outright in its text that it is “unprofessional conduct to perform a medically unnecessary puberty inhibition procedure or a sex characteristic-altering procedure on a minor.”