The Senate of State in Pennsylvania adopted on Tuesday “Save Women’s Sports Act” in the vote 32-18.
Account, sponsored by Senator Judy Ward (R-Blair/Fulton/Huntingdon/Juniata/Mifflin), says that “school sports teams designated for women may not be open to male sex. Recipes define” sex “as a biological distinction between a man and a woman, based on reproductive biology and genetic makeup.”
Senate Bill 9 Requires public schools and universities describing sports teams as men, women or Coed. Legislation provides that only biological women can join teams designated for women. The bill also allows students to take legal actions if they are damaged by violations of this principle.
“Sport has never been distributed on the basis of gender identity, said Ward.” Biological sex was separated, and the regulations ensure that it remains true in the future. We cannot allow those possibilities that women fought so challenging for, and we must protect the possibilities for our athletes that give sport. How many more women must lose from the hands of a man before we have?
The 90-minute debate on the floor sometimes warmed up as the leader of the Senate minority Jay Costa (D-Allegheny) called on the proceedings as purely political.
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Dream. Dawn Keefer (R-york), one of Bills’s co-consisting, he told senators that “the bill is nothing else. It’s a pro-voice.”
She inaccurately referred to history with the participation of Swimmer University of Kentucky Riley Gaineswho became one of the most open critics of transa women participating in athletics for women. Keefer claimed that despite the connection of the Trans University of Pennsylvania Lia Thomas In Freestyle Freestyle NCAA, the 200-jard trophy of fifth place was presented to Thomas, not Gaines. The senator said that Gaines “was ordered to close and move to the side”, citing this as an example of the persecution of women.
NCAA had one fifth place at the party. According to NCAA policy, in the event of a draw, the trophy is presented with a senior athlete in terms of competition years.
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At the Congress hearing in December, the President of NCAA Charlie Baker He said that there are fewer than 10 transgender athletes from over 500,000 students who participate in collegial athletics in the association.
Many athletes, both at the amateur and professional level, commented on the support of their transgender colleagues from the team and competitors – including the football of the World Cup champion Megan Rapinoetennis icon Billie Jean KingStanford swimmer Brooke FordeNBA Star Dwyane WadeCanadian football phenomena Erin McLeodWNBA STAR Nafirea CollierIN Dawn StaleyThe main coach of the Women’s Basketball Team NCAA South Carolina University Championships.
Senator Lindsey Williams (D-Allegheny) She talked on the floor of the Senate about her experience in defense of Trans athletes.
“I did not expect the threat of death. I did not expect hundreds of connections, e -si and posts in social media from people across the country, threatening to cut my throat, translated my grinder into meat or just hit me in the face,” Williams said. “The most violent comments came from men, men who were so nervous that I did not vote for a quote protecting women in a sports account who threatened to physically attaculate me.
She continued, sharing her parents’ lessons.
“They taught me that you should never stand on the side of the rabbit. They always taught me to facilitate a person to persecute. So if the president of the United States, the richest man in the world, and most in this chamber still wants to crap for children, I will be there.
Dream Maria Collett (D-Montgomery) criticized the majority of Republican in the Chamber for moving SB9 as “AND calculated distraction With . urgent crises lining Pennsylvania, AND distraction This serves Just Down to divide us AND reverse Attention With . true issues This demand our center.”
While the Republicans continued to arrive on the podium to defend truthful competition for women, some Democrats devoted time to talking about the impact on transgender people – not only Trans athletes.
Five Democrats exceeded the passage to vote for the support of SB9 – Sense. Christine Tartlone (D-philadelphia), Nick Miller (Lehigh/northampton), Boscola fox (D-Lehigh/ Northampton), Marty Flynn (D-Lackawanna/ Luzerne) i James Malone (D-LANCASTER).
The bill now goes to a state home, where it is expected that in the House of most Democrats it will find agitation.
This is a breakthrough history and will be updated.
