Posted on 01/07/2020 1:07:56 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The new year is underway and lawmakers have started to make a push for new legislation, but one bill already has a flag on the play.
A controversial bill in Tennessee that would seek to stop transgender athletes from playing on a team that matches their gender identity has drawn some sharp criticism in the LGBTQ+ and sports communities.
Tennessee House Bill 1572, if passed, would require public elementary and secondary schools to "ensure that student athletes participate in school-sanctioned sports based on the student's biological sex as indicated on certificate issued at time of birth."
The bill, which was introduced on Dec. 9, 2019, by Republican Rep. Bruce Griffey, would also establish a civil penalty of up to $10,000 as a consequence for any official who intentionally chooses not to comply.
The International Olympic Committee guidelines from 2015 allows athletes who transition from male to female to compete in the women’s category without surgery.
The IOC has been working towards a stricter standard for transgender athletes ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, but has been halted due to disagreements with scientists involved.
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Nobody is being forced to do anything. I don't have to join the lady's wrestling team nor do they have to allow me to proclaim myself a woman and force myself on them.
“force student-athletes in Tennessee to play as gender identified at birth”
I doubt the bill forces anyone to do anything. More likely, it allows competitions to distinguish between sex and “gender identity”.
OMG.
I am no athlete and avoided Phys Ed in school, but women found it took decades to form Women’s Sports...only to have men invade it....al in the name ope Liberalism.
I wonder if any of them see the irony.
Yep,
And predictably vise versa, in that if this was some Blue State passing a law that allowed them to compete what sex they feel they are then they would be calling a “Landmark Bill”
notice the use of the word “FORCE” instead of “REQUIRE” in the headline....
Subtle propaganda from the lavender mafia.
I guess the irony was too subtle... sorry.
Their sex. They are being expected to compete against others of the same sex.
That such a law is necessary shows how the madness has metastasized in our country and the world for that matter. The “that’s it no more” moment should have happened awhile ago but in truth it hasn’t hit yet.
Oh, you probably just forgot to add the /sarc tag.
btw, which one are you in the 48 hours segment?
That's the beauty of a free and independent unbiased press. /s
The LPGA rules state you have to have been born a woman to play. Gotta problem with that, ABC?
I love the way the alphabet people & their media shills accuse the normies of trying to “take their rights away” and “force” them to live in reality.
As if they were always the normal, mainstream people & ordinary, sane people are the extremists who’ve suddenly appeared on the scene & started shoving freaky-deaky behaviors down *their* throats.
What do the chromosomes say? It’s a binary choice and it’s locked in for life.
Deal with it.
Because the government did get involved and has thoroughly mucked things up across multiple levels.
This proposal doesn’t “force” anyone to do anything.
Headline is a lie.
Oh the horror....... Wait, what.
“Controversial to whom? The liberals?
Such legislation sounds like common sense, and distinctly non-controversial to me.”
I don’t know how old you are, but at one time this WAS actually common sense, and therefore didn’t need a law behind it.
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