Posted on 03/22/2022 9:56:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Republican governor of Indiana has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited biological males who identify as female to participate in female sporting competitions, expressing multiple concerns about the proposed legislation.
Gov. Eric Holcomb vetoed House Enrolled Act 1041 on Monday, explaining his reasoning in a letter to Indiana House of Representatives Speaker Todd Huston, also a Republican.
Holcomb expressed concern with the bill’s “wide-open nature of the grievance provisions,” believing they made it “unclear about how consistency and fairness will be maintained for parents and students across different counties and school districts.”
The governor worries about the potential for the bill to tie the state up in litigation. He noted that other states that have passed similar legislation had been sued, with some court decisions coming down in favor of the plaintiffs.
Holcomb believes that the Indiana High School Athletic Association is doing a sufficiently decent job maintaining fairness in student sports without the new law.
“I am heartened by the IHSAA which has done an admirable job to help maintain fairness and consistency in all sports,” wrote Holcomb. “Nowhere in the testimony on this legislation was a critique leveled against their model on how to govern this and other complex matters.”
“Furthermore, not a single case of a male seeking to participate on a female team has completed the process established by IHSAA’s now decade-old policy.”
Meridian Baldacci of the socially conservative Family Policy Alliance, which supported the legislation, contends in a statement that Holcomb has “abandoned young Hoosier girls” and left them susceptible to the “same fate” as female college swimmers who lost to trans-identified swimmer Lia Thomas in the NCAA 500-yard freestyle national championship this month.
While Thomas finished first by 1.75 seconds in the NCAA 500-yard freestyle, the athlete finished eighth in the 100-yard freestyle championship and fifth in the 200-yard freestyle final. Thomas is now a three-time All-American by competing in the finals of all three categories.
“Every time a male is awarded a limited girls’ roster spot, competition placement, scholarship, championship title or career opportunity, a female athlete has that same opportunity taken away from her – in a contest meant just for females,” stated Baldacci.
“The Indiana General Assembly must override this misguided and concerning veto from the governor of one of the most conservative states in the nation.”
Critics contend that biological males who identify as females have innate advantages from being biologically male and, on average, are larger with more muscle mass and higher bone density.
However, liberal organizations, like the American Civil Liberties Union, have denied that any “unfair” advantage exists for trans-identified biological males who compete against women or girls because “athletes vary in athletic ability just like cisgender athletes” and success often depends on techniques and training.
According to the LGBT activist group the Movement Advancement Project, 12 states have passed laws prohibiting men who identify as female from competing in sports designated for females. The others include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.
Earlier this month, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law requiring students to confirm their biological sex before being allowed to compete in girls’ sports.
“No amount of talent, training or effort can make up for the natural physical advantages males have over females. It’s simply a reality of human biology,” stated Reynolds. “Forcing females to compete against males is the opposite of inclusivity and it’s absolutely unfair.”
In 2021, the NCAA threatened not to host championship tournaments and contests in states that have passed laws impacting the ability of trans-identified athletes to compete based on their gender identity.
The success of Thomas, a biological male who competed previously on the Penn men’s swim team before competing this year on the women’s team, has sparked much debate about NCAA policies on trans-identified athletes.
Virginia Tech swimmer Reka Gyorgy, who missed the cut to compete in the 500-yard freestyle finals, voiced her displeasure with the NCAA’s policy. She wrote a letter to the NCAA on Sunday.
“It feels like the final spot was taken from me because of the NCAA’s decision to let someone who is not a biological female compete,” she wrote.
“I know you could say I had the opportunity to swim faster and make the top 16, but this situation makes it a bit different and I can’t help but be angry or sad. It hurts me, my team and other women in the pool. One spot was taken away from the girl who got 9th in the 500 free and din’t [sic] make it back to the A final preventing her from being an All-American. Every event that transgender athletes competed in was one spot taken away from biological females throughout the meet.”
Im sure he has no daughters in sports
The United States has fallen
Let's stop using the language of the left. They are boys, plain and simple.
a very loud, vocal group of women brought this on themselves while men stood by knowing the women were going to screw themselves in the end, Because you can't argue with stupid
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He signed Constitutional Carry and kicked this back to the legislators, who are free, and gearing up to, override. I’m fairly certain he knew they would/will.
My solution: rename the categories from “male” and “female” to “biological male” and “biological female”.
That pretty much reinforces my view that America doesn’t even exist anymore.
Maybe Indiana will be the first state a boxing or martial arts event ends up with a girl or woman getting killed by one of these things. Then what concerns will the governor express?
So it’s the governor’s fault if some dingbat climbs into a boxing ring to fight a man? LOL.
Again, where are the pussy hats when they are needed?
its a man!
no its not!
Is too!,
Not!,
But its got a weiner!
, No it doesn't!,
Yes it does!
Well , its wearing a wig.
Its still a man!,
Not really.
Not really?
Yes, not really because its pine'n to be a woman.
He can share blame with everyone else that wants it.
He does not have to face the voters again until 2024.
Here's hoping the primaries this year purge every RINO who must face the voters and make the other traitors who are safe until 2024 quake in their boots.
What you propose is very unfair to females. Having all compete in the same team would mean that no females would ever be able to be on a team. Males are simply stronger, faster, etc. than any woman.
So, taxpayers would spend all their athletic money only on the males? Totally unfair.
I do think there are some issues that radical feminists have aggravated, such as insisting that there be equal number of sports teams for boys and girls in schools. Not very sensible IMHO.
Can’t we use a bit more common sense? I expect to see reasonable arguments here on FR, and fortunately most fit that description. However, there are a few here who sound like mysogynists in their views of any females in sports. They may not mean it that way, but it comes across that way.
That’s the kind of thing I would expect to hear from pathetic misfits and losers.
It has no place on a website dedicated to the protection of freedom and liberty.
Jarwulf is 100% correct.
Getting taxpayers out of the business of subsidizing these stupid scholastic sports programs fixes the “unfair” problem entirely.
"Indiana lawmakers override third governor veto this session"
May 11, 2021
The majority of Indiana’s legislature is siding against Governor Eric Holcomb once again this session.Lawmakers voted to override Holcomb’s veto for the third time in 2021.
This time it was over a law giving local elected leaders oversight on health department orders during public emergencies.
(https://fox59.com/news/politics/indiana-lawmakers-override-third-governor-veto-this-session/)
What does the Birth Certificate say? They SHOULD say Male or Female. Anything else is flat denial of reality and provably so.
When I played Pee Wee sports, I supplied my BC. When I got my Drivers License, a BC. Now some will say “why should a BC be required to be biologically accurate”? To make sure Boys go to girls prisons, boys register for the draft, boys play sports with boys and girls play with girls. Women DESERVE to play in an all female sports league as do men. For that matter, men deserve to have all male clubs, gyms, locker rooms, showers, swimming days at a pool etc. At the VFW we had a womens auxiliary for wives of veterans. Veterans had priority no matter the sex of individuals. All were members, but treated differently, as were children of veterans. Allowed, but under different rules. The same should apply to all.
The argument that one male who “says he is female” to go to prison, or access to the females locker room is specious. The ONE can go hang with the boys, for the safety of the girls. That applies to locker rooms, dressing rooms, sports and prisons.
In Washington State a fully functioning male claiming to be a female trans, was placed in the womens prison and began raping women. The women had no way to protect themselves from him, and he ended up with a young girl who was immature to control and bunk with.
The reasoning was, that he would be in danger in a mens prison. That reasoning is also wrong and ignorant. The law or rule endangers many women, while it protects the one guy from being harrassed, beaten or molested in a mens prison. The answer to that is TOUGH TEATIES. You don’t change the entire society, to accomodate mentally ill people, which is exactly what people are who deny their sex.
Let them cross dress, let them live their lives as they want, but PROTECT children, adults and society from those pretending to be trans. Just as we protect them from other potentially dangerous people. Not to say cross dressers are dangerous, it is those who pretend to be one thing but are another, and seek to normalize it and recruit others.
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