Texas Governor Signs Bill Requiring Student Athletes Play on Teams Matching Birth Sex

Epoch Times ^ | 10/27/2021 | Zachary Steiber

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The governor of Texas on Monday signed a law that bars student athletes from playing on sports teams that do not match the sex listed on their birth certificate.

The bill is aimed at restoring rights granted to women under Title IX, its authors say.

Texas House Bill 25 (pdf) requires most interscholastic athletic teams from letting students compete in competitions “that is designated for the biological sex opposite to the student ’s biological sex as correctly stated on” their official birth certificate.

The bill “protects girls’ safety and their right to equal access to athletic opportunities,” state Rep. Valoree Swanson, one of its authors, said during a House session earlier this month.

The University Interscholastic League in 2016 passed a rule with widespread support requiring students compete on teams designated for their biological sexes as stated on their birth certificates. The bill codifies the rule while stating that certificates are only valid if they are from “at or near” the time of a student’s birth.

Critics claim that the legislation discriminates against students who believe they’re a different sex than their birth sex.

“Transgender and nonbinary youth are already at higher risk for poor mental health and suicide because of bullying, discrimination, and rejection. This misguided legislation will only make matters worse,” Amit Paley, CEO and executive director of The Trevor Project, said in a statement.

The bill was passed 76–61 in the state House and 19–12 in the state Senate. Abbott, a Republican, did not comment on Monday on the bill, the 10th such piece of legislation passed in the United States.

[SeekAndFind]

SEE? THAT WASN’T SO HARD, WAS IT?

I’M LOOKING AT YOU KRISTI NOEM.

[VanShuyten]

I can’t wait for men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and X-on-passport basketball.

[CatOwner]

Well, that will piss off the leftists. I expect another 10,000 illegals to be added to the coming wave toward Texas in the next couple of days.

[Jamestown1630]

My goodness.

What a revolutionary idea.

[Reno89519]

Good, need National and international.

[gitmo]

I filled out a form at a doctor’s office and was surprised to find a question asking what was my sex when I was born.

I wrote in that my memories of that day are pretty sketchy.

[bigbob]

Countdown to the next article that begins with the words “Federal judge...”

[usconservative]

“Transgender and nonbinary youth are already at higher risk for poor mental health and suicide because of bullying, discrimination, and rejection.

No, they're at higher risk of suicide and poor mental health precisely because of gender dysphoria, which is a treatable mental illness.

The fact that many states have adopted laws saying parents cannot get counseling for their own children who suffer from it because the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ morons pushing the radical homosexual agenda to increae their numbers are the reason why kids are committing suicide.

[Jamestown1630]

Excellent!

:-)

[The Antiyuppie]

“I filled out a form at a doctor’s office and was surprised to find a question asking what was my sex when I was born.”

I was at a doctor where they cheated and left a blank line for sex. I wrote “occasionally”. It did seem like a valid medical question. They made no comment.

[central_va]

I was at a doctor where they cheated and left a blank line for sex. I wrote “occasionally”.

Sex? What about "No thanks"

[gitmo]

I’ve often thought of answering “missionary “.

[whitney69]

Disagree with this. The problem with the separation of sports for female gender is that it isn’t equal for anybody. Okay...make it equal. Make it so women and men compete on an equal level. No two basketball teams, gymnastics, volleyball, soccer, golf, or any sport is allowed to be identified and earmarked for gender separation. Both compete together. And that also means sports like softball, or field hockey of which both do not allow men to compete, will be both genders playing. There is no matchup sport for them that women can’t play.

That is equal treatment. There is no such thing as separate but equal. That was supposed to stop after the civil war. I don’t see the difference between then and now except for the pandering.

wy69

[Secret Agent Man]

Thank Christ

I hope it also keeps the girls off the guys teams as well

[Lurkinanloomin]

Kristi blew it, she might have had a promising career.......

[one guy in new jersey]

“as correctly stated on”

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...standing in sheer see if the fact that they (logically) included the word “correctly”...😊

[one guy in new jersey]

see if = awe of

[one guy in new jersey]

They asked for sex and not gender.

As Martha Stewart says, that’s a good thing!

[Sequoyah101]

It is a shame this has to be a law when common sense should do but I’m happy he finally did this.