Minnesota legislators consider that Bill prohibited transgender girls from sports teams
The members of the Minnesota Chamber advance with a bill to prohibit transgender girls from participating in sports for girls throughout the state. The Education Policy Committee held an audience on the proposal on Wednesday.
About two dozen people testified at the meeting, including student-athletes, parents, defenders and doctors.
The representative Peggy Scott is the author of the Preserving Girls Act, which would modify the status of Minnesota which protects against discrimination based on sex in sports programs to include: “Only students can participate in a sports team or An elementary or secondary sport that an education of an education The institution has been limited to women and girls. »»
The original version of the bill said that if there was a dispute, a student should provide a signed doctor declaration indicating the student’s sex according to his internal and external reproductive anatomy, the natural level of testosterone of the student and an analysis of the student’s chromosomes.
This provision was deleted by Scott, which introduced a modified version which replaced it with a definition of women. The bill defines a woman as being biologically determined by genetics and based on the reproductive system.
“We preserve the sports of girls because there is an unfair advantage if they are in competition with a man,” said Scott during the audience. “We are trying to protect our girls.”
Defenders of legislation have raised concerns that transgender girls have a physical advantage over girls who have been assigned to birth and take stains from others in competitive teams.
Opponents of the bill, however, argued that Trans Girls contributed to Minnesota sports teams for at least a decade without any problem and deserves the opportunity to compete in the team where they feel comfortable .
“It is obviously false that this trans participation reduces the participation of girls in sport, this is simply not the case,” said Jess Braverman, legal director of gender justice, who testified.
The Minnesota State High School League has adopted a policy allowing students to compete in the team whose sex with whom they identify in 2015. MSHSL reaffirmed this position Earlier this month After President Trump signed an executive decree prohibiting transgender girls from participating in girls sports.
The league argued that the order had violated the Minnesota Human Rights Act.
The Education Policy Committee voted to advance the bill to the soil of the Chamber, despite the concerns of the DFL legislators who wondered how it would be applied and how students’ data would be protected.
“We present ourselves (opening the way) for harassment for harassment and examination of the body of women, the body of girls – they are little girls, five -year -old children,” said representative Julie Greene.