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Texas House passes controversial transgender student athletes bill
See BS ^ | Oct 15, 2021 | Tori B. Powell

Posted on 10/15/2021 6:15:33 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

After more than ten hours of debate, the Texas House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday night requiring transgender public school athletes to compete on teams that match their birth gender, not the gender they identify with. The controversial bill, which passed with a 76-54 vote, now goes to the state Senate.

Introduced by Representative Valoree Swanson, the measure restricts the athletes to playing on teams that match the biological sex listed on an official birth certificate issued at or close to the time of the student's birth. A modified birth certificate would only be accepted if it had been changed "to correct a clerical error," the bill states....

Critics called the legislation an "immoral and hateful bill" that attacks transgender people, and pushed back on the claims of an uptick in requests for action by the UIL, saying there haven't been any complaints.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: girls; girlssports; sports; transgender; women
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I think boys who think they are girls should compete only against other boys who think they are girls. Girls who think they are boys should only be allowed to compete against other girls who think they are boys.


41 posted on 10/15/2021 6:58:24 AM PDT by euram
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
You trying to tell me these aren't real women?

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The left says they are - and if you disagree, expect to have your career and personal life destroyed.

42 posted on 10/15/2021 7:00:20 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

XX=female. XY=male. Follow the science. Nothing controversial about that.


43 posted on 10/15/2021 7:07:30 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“Controversial”...

We are doomed as a culture and society when something like this is considered “controversial”.


44 posted on 10/15/2021 7:08:38 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Bon of Babble

Rugby has rules against women on men’s teams and vice-versa. Don’t know how this man got to play with the women. It is a safety factor.


45 posted on 10/15/2021 7:11:06 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Controversial is when boys compete against girls.


46 posted on 10/15/2021 7:11:28 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: Bon of Babble

At some point, a young lady or girl is going to be killed or become a quadriplegic with this crap. Why aren’t more women fighting this? Instead, feminists keep chasing the evil-white-male-keeping-them-down fantasy...


47 posted on 10/15/2021 7:13:12 AM PDT by Magnatron
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48 posted on 10/15/2021 7:16:50 AM PDT by deks (2 Corinthians 11:14)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I can’t imagine anyone voting against what is obviously “right” and “just” and “reality”. X is X and Y is Y. They are NOT interchangeable.


49 posted on 10/15/2021 7:18:46 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Controversial: Insisting that boys play on the boys' team.

Normal: Putting a mentally ill boy taking hormone shots and growing fake boobs on the girls' team so that he can dominate them.

That's where we are today in the United States of the Absurd.
50 posted on 10/15/2021 7:22:31 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The nazis let a man run as a woman in the 1936 Olympics. Search for the name Henrich-Dora Ratjen and you will get an eye full.

I got 30 days in Facebook jail for posting that.

Zuck has a heart on for trannies and gays.


51 posted on 10/15/2021 7:22:52 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT OF FB JAIL! and back on the attack. For how long? Back in jail again! 4th time this year!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

AMEN


52 posted on 10/15/2021 7:24:13 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“76-54 vote”

Unreal that 54 voted against.


53 posted on 10/15/2021 7:29:56 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: mewzilla

Exactly. Words have a gender. Humans have a sex.

The normies should quit cooperating with the cra-cras and stop using the word gender when what they mean is the human’s sex; male or female.


54 posted on 10/15/2021 7:33:54 AM PDT by curious7
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

God Bless Texas!


55 posted on 10/15/2021 7:39:30 AM PDT by 55Ford
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Simply recognizing reality is “controversial.”


56 posted on 10/15/2021 7:40:43 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

IMHO the only thing controversial about the bill is that it was needed.

================================================================Yep, you have to be liberal, to see this legislation as controversial. To the rest of us, it just seems like common sense legislation to keep the sexes separate in sports.


57 posted on 10/15/2021 7:42:38 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Absolutely -


58 posted on 10/15/2021 7:47:58 AM PDT by Altura Ct. (We should mint )
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To: eyeamok

What was an absolute given 10 minutes ago suddenly it’s controversial - that’s how quickly our culture is rotting.

Of course, also consider the source.


59 posted on 10/15/2021 7:53:31 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Soooo..... the question is: Who are the 54 freaks that voted against this bill?


60 posted on 10/15/2021 7:53:50 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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