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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2941111/georgia-lawmakers-advance- transgender-sports-restrictions/

The Georgia Senate passed a bill late Tuesday restricting students
claiming transgender identity from playing sports that do not align with
their biological sex, sending the measure to the state House.

Several transgender-related measures were stitched together and attached
to what was a bipartisan mental health proposal last week, and it passed
over Democratic objections on Tuesday.

The bill now heads to the Georgia House, in which lawmakers will consider whether to require students to play on sports teams and use facilities
that align with their biological sex, as well as whether to require
schools to notify parents which books their children check out. The bill
also includes a restriction on sexual education until seventh grade.

“It protects the rights of women to compete against each other in athletic competition,” said Republican state Sen. Clint Dixon, who curated the
bills.

“A person who has gone through puberty as a man and who has developed as a
man should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports, no matter what
gender identity he claims at that time,” Dixon said. “No matter what the
male claims his gender identity is, it would be based on the birth
certificate, and would not be allowed to play in those girls sports.”

The initial bipartisan bill was originally aimed at safeguarding the
mental health of student-athletes, but Republican leadership added the transgender-related components as a way to protect the mental and physical health of girls in Georgia, they said.

“I mean, what about females? We need to protect females and the sanctity
of their playing their sports,” Dixon said. “If males want to play sports,
they need to play it with males.”

Conservative groups in Georgia, such as the lobbying group Frontline
Policy Action, applauded the move.

“Georgians overwhelmingly support saving girls sports, protecting the
privacy of our daughters in bathrooms and changing rooms, and preserving
the innocence of our children,” Frontline President Cole Muzio said,
according to the Georgia Recorder. “Hyperbolic statements and partisan
rhetoric will not distract from the simple reality that this is something
our citizens both want and deserve.”

Democratic state Sen. Nabilah Islam Parkes slammed the measure as a “Frankenstein bill,” adding, “To marginalize and isolate transgender
students, denying them the camaraderie and growth afforded by team sports
and subject them to the indignity of being treated as outcasts in their
own schools.”

The bill inspired protests from some LGBT-identifying Georgians, who were already demonstrating outside the state Capitol for transgender liberation
day.

One such protester, a female-identifying pastor who is biologically male,
Kalie Hargrove, told the Georgia Recorder, “There’s this narrative out
there that there are no trans kids and that it’s something that people
choose to be later.”

“It’s a complete myth. Trans kids exist,” Hargrove continued. “I know
because I was one, when I was going through puberty, I didn’t even live in
a place where I had the language to explain my experience, what I was
feeling.”

The bill will head back to the GOP-controlled state House, in which action
is uncertain, in time for the last legislative session on Thursday.


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