Bills targeting trans athletes fail in California Assembly committee

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Two bills seeking to prohibition transgender miss athletes from girls' sports were presented successful the Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism committee some failed to determination forward.

The effort comes arsenic the Trump medication is targeting these athletes and threatening to withhold national backing for schools that enactment them.

The medication said allowing transgender miss athletes into girls' sports is simply a nonstop usurpation of Title IX.

Governor Gavin Newsom, who often butts heads with the president and Republicans, besides stirred contention with his comments connected trans athletes successful his podcast successful aboriginal March.

"Would you accidental nary men successful pistillate sports? Well, it's, I deliberation it's an contented of fairness," said Newsom. "I wholly hold with you connected that. So that's casual to telephone retired the unfairness of that. There's besides humility and grace that these mediocre radical are much apt to perpetrate suicide, person anxiousness and depression, and the mode that radical speech down to susceptible communities is an contented that I person a hard clip with arsenic well. So some things I tin clasp successful my hand."

Other authorities leaders, including Arts and Entertainment committee seat Christopher Ward, said these bills are not astir being just to athletes and are much harmful to girls' and women's sports.

"Safeguarding younker sports isn't achieved by demonizing 1 of the smallest parts of the population," said Ward(D) San Diego. "In fact, it creates much harm and information for each miss athletes, transgender and cisgender alike."

Fresno Unified released a connection successful absorption to 1 of the bills, AB 844, speechmaking successful part:

"Fresno Unified is dedicated to fostering safe, supportive, and inclusive environments for each students, including those who are transgender. Students are permitted to enactment successful programs and activities, including diversion teams and usage of facilities, accordant with their sex identity, careless of the sex listed successful their records."

Clovis Unified released a statement. speechmaking successful part, "We travel the instrumentality and show the legislative process intimately to guarantee we stay successful compliant if ever laws change."

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