The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune (Rs.d), says that the legislation to prevent transgender athletes is prevented from participating in girls’ and women’s sports, will go to the Senate at the beginning of next week and may quickly take on a law on a topic of the Republicans and President Trump on their campaigns.
The Republican house Approved representative Greg Steube’s (R-Fla.) Protection of women and girls in sports in January with the support of Two Texas Democrats. If the Senate, in which the Republicans also have the majority, vote for the adoption of the law to Trump’s desk, where it is almost certain that it is signed in the law.
“We’ll put it on the floor at the beginning of next week,” Thune said ThursdayIn the podcast “ruthless”. “It is a problem that the house was about and the president has issued an executive regulation. This would codify the executive regulation. “
Trump’s Executive Order button from February 5th Turn transgender athletes From the nationwide competition in girls’ and women’s sports and the Ministry of Justice indicates that you take immediate measures, including enforcement measures, against schools and sporting associations that enable trans-athletes to take part in their gender identity.
Attorney General Pam Bondi warned the officials in Maine, California and Minnesota this week Complete Trump’s commandAnd the educational department opened several investigations in states, school districts and sports associations that have refused to enforce the restrictions.
The draft law before the Senate is trying to change the Federal Civil Rights Act against discrimination due to gender next week, to prohibit schools, to enable transgender students to participate in sporting events that are “shown for women or girls”.
Similar Another Trump Executive OrderIt defines sex as “based on reproductive biology and genetics of a person at birth”.
“It is regrettable that it is something that must be codified, but we will make sure that the EO of the President remains over time” planned a procedural vote On the bill for Monday evening.
“My assumption is that we obviously get a lot of resistance from the Democrats,” he added. “There are clearly party -political problems in our time and in our things, with which we have to do with law that generate a kind of deep political gap that we have, but for me it seems to be common sense.”
The question of whether transorters from girls and women’s sports are to be restricted or prohibited was for Democrats, who were surprisingly flat by Republican campaign ads in the last cycle, a politically disputed person who claimed that they had “men” in girls sports.
Some Democrats accused the party’s losses in November for their support for transgender rights, although voters in most exit pumps said that topics in connection with the economy and immigration decided their decision in the election crowd.
A current PEW Research Center It found that the Americans have supported the guidelines more to restrict transgender rights, including those in which athletes have to compete in sports teams that meet their births.
The number of transgender students who take part in school sports is unclear.
In September, said the National Federation of State High School Associations, which does not report how many student athletes are transgender, said Transgender. More than 8 million students took part in high school sports last year. Karissa Niehoff, CEO of the organization, told The Hill that an open trans athlete had never set a national record.
Charlie Baker, President of the NCAA, the Barred transgender athlete From the competition in women -college to Trump’s executive order in December, he shared a Senate committee that he is aware of it Less than 10 Transgender -ncaa athlete.
Opponents of guidelines that prevent Trans -Athletes from competing in girls and women’s sports have stated that such restrictions inevitably cheer on speculation about whether female athletes, transgender or not, look female enough to take part in women’s sports without asking questions about their gender.
“Although the authors of legislation are the interests of cisgender girls and women, this legislation does not deal with the long -term obstacles with which all girls and women were confronted with the persecution of athletics” In a letter to the congress.
“You can sit at your desk and sign a piece of paper and make the life of the translators much more difficult than necessary, but you will never extinguish us or our joy,” Nikki Hiltz wrote with medium distance, Nikki Hiltz, who is trans- and non-bobage, in an Instagram story after Trump had signed leading orientations for trans-athletes.
