SHILOH JOLIE PITT: THEN AND NOW
Posted on 05/26/2022 9:07:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Indiana legislature has overridden Gov. Eric Holcomb’s veto of a bill banning biological males from participating in sports reserved for female student-athletes, prompting the American Civil Liberties Union to file a lawsuit seeking to block the legislation from taking effect.
On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled Indiana legislature overrode Holcomb’s veto of House Enrolled Act 1041. The bill proclaims that biologically male students who identify as females “may not participate on an athletic team or sport designated under this section as being a female, women’s, or girls’ athletic team or sport.”
The Indiana House of Representatives overrode the veto in a 67-28 vote. The state Senate voted 32-15 to override Holcomb’s veto slightly more than an hour later.
The bill is scheduled to go into effect on July 1.
Shortly after the override, the ACLU of Indiana filed a lawsuit to block the law in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Filed on behalf of “A.M.,” a 10-year-old trans-identified male who plays on a girls’ softball team, the complaint alleges that House Enrolled Act 1041 violates federal anti-discrimination law and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
ACLU of Indiana Legal Director Ken Falk said in a statement Tuesday that he believes the new law is based on “misinformation about biology and gender.”
“Girls like A.M. simply want to access the same opportunities as their peers and denying them that right jeopardizes their mental health and physical well-being,” Falk said.
Upon vetoing the bill in March, the Republican governor expressed concern over the “wide-open nature of the grievance provisions” contained in the measure. He characterized the legislation as “unclear about how consistency and fairness will be maintained for parents and students across different counties and school districts.”
Holcomb felt at the time that the Indiana High School Athletic Association was doing “an admirable job to help maintain fairness and consistency in all sports.”
“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,” he added.
The American Principles Project, which describes itself as “the premier national organization engaging directly in campaigns and advocacy on behalf of the family,” celebrated the veto override.
The organization has emerged as an outspoken supporter of House Enrolled Act 1041 and similar legislation in other states, which it sees as necessary to create a level playing field for biologically female student-athletes.
APP President Terry Schilling said in a statement Tuesday that while he is happy to see the veto overridden, it is “unfortunate this vote was even necessary.”
“Governor Holcomb had an easy opportunity earlier this year to join dozens of other state executives in defending girls’ sports, but instead, he surrendered to the pressure of woke ideologues trying to eliminate biological reality,” Schilling claimed. “We applaud Indiana legislators for overcoming Holcomb’s cowardice to protect their state’s girl athletes, and we urge the remaining states without such protections to act immediately to implement them.”
Supporters contend that measures like HEA 1041 are necessary because of the biological differences between males and females that, on average, give male athletes an unfair advantage over their biologically female counterparts due to higher bone density and more muscle mass.
Political pressure to allow trans-identified males to compete in female sporting events has caused some sporting organizations to alter policies and others to defend their existing ones.
“Through analysis the impact of maturation in the presence naturally occurring androgens as the level necessary for male development, significant advantages are had, including but not limited to increased body and muscle mass, bone density, bone structure, and connective tissue,” a 2019 statement from USA Powerlifting states.
“These advantages are not eliminated by reduction of serum androgens such as testosterone yielding a potential advantage in strength sports such as powerlifting.”
A study from the British Journal of Sports Medicine suggests that trans-identified males still possess advantages over biologically female athletes even after one year of taking feminizing hormones.
The ACLU contends that trans-identified “athletes vary in athletic ability just like cisgender athletes” and success often depends on techniques and training. The organization denies that any “unfair” advantage exists for trans-identified biological males who compete against women or girls.
With the passage of HEA 1041, Indiana has become the 17th state to pass a measure preventing trans-identified males from competing in women’s sports.
According to the LGBT Movement Advancement Project, which opposes such legislation, the other states are Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.
We still Have a little common sense.
RINO POSs like Holcomb need to ridiculed out of office and public life. There is no place in America for people that don’t know the difference between males and females.
RE: We still Have a little common sense.
Notice that states that have the same laws as Indiana:
Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.
NOTICE ANYTHING IN COMMON?
Saying “biological males” implies there are other types.
There aren’t.
10 years old?
What sick, deranged parent would do this?
What, exactly, is the ACLU going to use as it’s counter argument?
Filed on behalf of “A.M.,” a 10-year-old trans-identified male who plays on a girls’ softball team
One aspect of this “transsexual” situation which I never understand, is, how can pre-pubescent children be “gay” or “trans”? If you haven’t gone through puberty, and don’t have all those sexual feelings which are aroused as you go through puberty, how can you say you identify as “gay” or “trans”? Without those sexual feelings, how can anyone say anything about “gender identity”, or “sexual orientation”?
Quote “the ACLU contends that trans-identified “athletes vary in athletic ability just like cisgender athletes” and success often depends on techniques and training. The organization denies that any “unfair” advantage exists for trans-identified biological males who compete against women or girls.”
Then.. they are basically saying men and women are equal and should compete against each other and that therefore there is no justification for separate sports for women.
Because you can’t have it both ways!
Either the sexes are not equal, or they are.
We should also eliminate all weight classes in sports like boxing and wrestling. After all, we are all the same. It’s the only fair thing to do.
Not full with woke leftist mega cities.
On the contrary, it’s based completely on biology.
Good for Indiana...
what’s wrong with the other 33 states?
Let boys who think they are girls compete against other boys who think they are girls, and let girls who think they are boys compete against other girls who think they are boys.
If every state did that you can bet that suddenly there would be far fewer boys thinking they’re girls. It’s all a scam, except for maybe the really mentally ill ones.
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Watch where the ACLU files. They will make damn sure they get in front of a rat Judge.
As things stand today it is physically impossible to be”transgender”; there are only cross dressers with severe mental issues.
The original intent of the raising the spending to fund girls sports was never brought out. Fairness is not an issue in amateur sports, winning is. So making sports available for girls without the individual success is not within the offered product.
Indiana is not alone. Here are the 2022 rules and guidelines for Utah which is consistent with the other states.
https://uhsaa.org/Publications/Handbook/Handbook.pdf
Interps &Guidelines 1.1.4
Page 26:
TRANSGENDER PARTICIPATION
This policy addresses eligibility determinations for students who have a gender identity that is different from the gender listed on their official birth certificates. For the protection of competitive balance and the integrity of women’s sports, the UHSAA will review athletic eligibility decisions based on gender assignment of trans gender student athletes in accordance with its approved policies and appeals procedures. If a sport is offered for both boys and girls, girls must play on the girls team and boys must play on the boys team.
If a school sponsors only a single team in a sport:
a. Girls are eligible to play on boys teams.
b. Boys are not eligible to play on girls teams.
With the consent of parents or a legal guardian, a student shall be permitted to participate on a gender specific sports team that is consistent with the public gender identity of that student for all other purposes. In making a determination of eligibility, the UHSAA will first refer to the confirmation of the student and his or her local school regarding gender identification. The UHSAA will require that member school districts and schools make a determination of a student’s eligibility to participate in gender specific sports team for a particular season based on the gender identification of that student
(1) in current school records, and,
(2) daily life activities in the school and community at the time that sports eligibility is determined.
Basically what is being said is that boys cannot compete with girls but girls can compete with boys. So the choice is that you either allow the boys to compete with the girls or you start sports already being played by the girls for the boys to create an equal opportunity for both to compete at their chosen sport.
So to stay within their current rules, they will have to create opportunities for softball, field hockey, gymnastic events including the normally used by women’s apparatus, men’s rodeo barrel racing, and any other girls only school competitions created at local level. Then it will be a fair and justified use of the funds awarded to girl’s sports and supplemented by federal funding under Title IX.
According to the federal government, based upon funding, and the ruling faction of the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF), athletic programs are considered educational programs and activities. Title IX gives women athletes the right to equal opportunity in sports in educational institutions that receive federal funds, from elementary schools to colleges and universities.
This policy is not equal opportunity, it is gender recognition based upon participation and erasing the desire to competition. And considering that the government is defining this as athletic programs that are considered educational programs and activities, then the kids are not getting anything other than recreational entertainment outside of school hours as they are not providing the education of competition. Therefore, it is nothing more than recreation trying to justify money. And since these sports are using federal tax funds, it is citizen’s in one state paying for recreational opportunities in another.
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Does anyone else remember how Brad Pott and Angelina Jolie’s oldest daughter, Shiloh, insisted that she wear boys’ clothes all throughout her childhood?
Recently I saw a picture of Shiloh with her Mom. She is now in her mid-teens, and she is now wearing girl’s clothing.
Apparently, Pitt and Jolie let her wear the boys clothing, and now Shiloh has realized and accepted that she is a girl - and she wants to be a normal teenage girl. Mother nature usually wins out in cases like this, and if parents become advocates of gender confusing behavior and insist the kid is a transgender rather than passing through a phase, the kid becomes totally mixed up.
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