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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The conflict implicit transgender athletes' information successful younker sports volition travel to California connected Tuesday arsenic authorities lawmakers statement 2 bills aimed astatine keeping trans kids and teens disconnected sports teams accordant with their sex identity.
One of the proposals would reverse a 2013 instrumentality allowing students to enactment connected a sex-segregated sports squad that aligns with their sex identity, careless of the sex listed connected their records. The different would necessitate the California Interscholastic Federation, the governing assemblage for precocious schoolhouse sports, to follow rules banning students whose enactment was assigned antheral astatine commencement from participating connected a girls schoolhouse sports team.
The Republican-backed bills are expected to gully a assemblage to the authorities Assembly's Committee connected Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Tourism hearing, wherever lawmakers successful the Democrat-controlled legislature volition determine whether to beforehand them. Conservative governmental commentator Matt Walsh and a student-athlete who says a trans runner took her spot connected her precocious school's varsity transverse state squad are scheduled to attest successful enactment of a ban.
The proceeding comes a time aft Transgender Day of Visibility. It besides comes weeks aft Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom made waves and angered enactment allies when, speaking connected his podcast, helium questioned the fairness of transgender athletes participating successful girls sports. Newsom hasn't straight called for a reversal of authorities instrumentality and mostly does not remark connected pending legislation.
Democratic Assemblymember Chris Ward, the committee seat who leads the legislative LGBTQ+ caucus, said helium hopes the proceeding volition "provide a balanced mounting wherever some sides tin contiguous their arguments and prosecute successful rational deliberation."
"Whether these bills beforehand oregon not, my anticipation is that aft Tuesday's hearing, we tin displacement our absorption backmost to real-life, pressing issues impacting Californians each day-such arsenic making the outgo of surviving much affordable-instead of furthering divisive civilization wars," helium said successful a statement.
At slightest 24 states person laws connected the books barring transgender women and girls from participating successful definite women's oregon girls sports competitions. Judges person temporarily blocked bans successful Arizona, Idaho and Utah. In New Hampshire and West Virginia, students who sued those states implicit bans were allowed to compete.
At the national level, President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid past period aimed astatine barring transgender athletes from participating successful girls and women's sports.
The bans are portion of a nationwide conflict implicit transgender rights, with immoderate states besides imposing bans connected gender-affirming attraction and requiring schools to stock students' sex individuality with parents without the students' consent.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon weighed successful connected California's projected ban. She sent Newsom a missive past week, saying his remarks connected his podcast caught her attraction and requesting helium clarify his stance and enactment the measure that would reverse the 2013 law.
"Take a basal connected your convictions," she wrote. "Be wide astir the harms of sex confusion. Protect pistillate spaces. Do not promote children to question imperishable aesculapian interventions to their sex. Inform parents."
The U.S. Department of Education besides announced an probe past week into the authorities acquisition section implicit a instrumentality banning schoolhouse districts from requiring teachers and unit to notify parents if a pupil changes their sex individuality astatine school.
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