Topic: Virginia bill... transgender students play on teams based on biological sex

[Northern Star Girl]

Virginia bill requiring transgender students play on teams based on biological sex passes subcommittee

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 https://wtop.com/virginia/2023/01/virginia-bill-requiring-transgender-students-play-on-teams-based-on-biological-sex-passes-subcommittee/

Neal Augenstein
naugenstein@wtop.com
January 30, 2023, 1:29 PM

A Virginia bill that would require transgender athletes in public schools — from elementary school through college — to play on teams that match their biological sex passed out of subcommittee Monday.

HB 1387, introduced by Virginia Beach Republican Karen Greenhalgh, doesn’t include the word “transgender,” but would have the effect of barring transgender students in K-12 schools and colleges from competing on teams that match their gender identities.

“The purpose of House Bill 1837 is to protect our girls and young women from being forced to compete against biological males,” said Greenhalgh. “Similarly gifted and trained males will always have the physical advantage over females, which is the reason we have women’s sports.

The bill applies to all levels of competition, including “interscholastic, intercollegiate, intermural or club” teams.
“It’s not how many women are going to have their dreams crushed — it’s that it can happen, and we need to make sure that it doesn’t,” Greenhalgh concluded.

Greenhalgh’s bill passed the Post-Secondary and Higher Ed subcommittee, and will be heard by the full subcommittee Wednesday.


                                     

[Mary_M]

So a trans man, someone assigned female at birth (whose "biological sex" is female), who perhaps started taking testosterone before puberty and has been taking it since, so that their body and muscle structure developed as male, would be forced to compete against girls and young women on the women's team and would be prevented from competing on a male team.

How does this "protect our girls and young women from being forced to compete against ... males"?

[Devlyn]

So a trans man, someone assigned female at birth (whose "biological sex" is female), who perhaps started taking testosterone before puberty and has been taking it since, so that their body and muscle structure developed as male, would be forced to compete against girls and young women on the women's team and would be prevented from competing on a male team.

How does this "protect our girls and young women from being forced to compete against ... males"?

Transmen are actually our best weapon in this whole debate.