Washington:
The Republican-led US Home of Representatives on Tuesday handed a invoice severely proscribing transgender athletes from taking part in ladies’ and girls’s sports activities.
The laws would bar transgender college students from feminine groups at any faculty or college that receives federal funding, though its adoption by the Senate and passage into regulation is unlikely.
The invoice defines intercourse as “based mostly solely on an individual’s reproductive biology and genetics at delivery” and restricts transgender athletes from taking part in athletic actions “designated for ladies or ladies.”
Republicans hammered Democrats on transgender points — particularly with it got here to youth and sports activities — forward of the 2024 election, capitalizing on a broader tradition struggle over LGBTQ rights.
As transgender folks — a small minority of the inhabitants — have develop into a extra seen presence in the USA, sparking questions round gender norms and equity, many conservatives have rallied round girls’s sports activities.
“Home Republicans but once more stood up for ladies,” Home Speaker Mike Johnson mentioned in a press release.
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to finish “transgender lunacy.”
The Home garnered 218 votes for the invoice, together with two Democrats.
Within the Senate, nonetheless, Republicans are unlikely to get sufficient Democrats on board to beat the higher chamber’s 60-vote threshold on most laws.
Advocacy group Equality California slammed the invoice as “yet one more effort to disclaim transgender youth the dignity and respect they deserve.”
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