LAW PROTECTING GIRLS' ATHLETICS
"...When we don't act and we just go with the status quo, we do more harm to both transgender youth and women athletes." -Rep. Kera Birkeland, the bill's sponsor
On Friday, supermajorities in the Utah house and senate voted to override Gov. Cox's veto of H.B. 11. The new Student Eligibility in Interscholastic Activities law, which will take effect on July 1, 2022, will protect girls who compete in school athletics from being forced to compete—and share locker facilities—with boys who suffer from gender dysphoria.
The newly passed law imposes limits on participation in female sports, by: requiring schools and local education agencies to designate athletic activities by sex; prohibiting a student of the male sex from competing against another school on a team designated for female students.
This is worth noting, because it demonstrates that the law is designed to preserve fair competition in girls' sports for use by actual girls. It doesn't mention anything about preventing biological girls from competing against boys, because that doesn't give them an unfair advantage—unlike their male counterparts who compete against naturally weaker females
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