The Missouri House voted Monday to set limits on transgender student athletes in grade 6 through college from playing on the same team as other girls and women.
would no longer be allowed to play on the same team as other girls and women under a bill passed Monday in Missouri's Republican-led House.similar legislation earlier this yearThe ban would apply to student athletes in grade 6 through college, including teams at private schools. Public K-12 schools and colleges would lose state funding for allowing transgender girls to play sports with other girls.
Republican bill sponsor Rep. Jamie Burger, of Benton, said allowing transgender girls to play with other girls will"wipe out female sports as we know it." "Biological males are bigger. They are stronger. They are faster," Burger said on the House floor late Monday."The majority of women simply cannot compete."Democratic Rep. Keri Ingle, of Lee's Summit, said children"don't harbor our fears and our ignorance, and thank God for that."
"We can't bear the thought of kids who are different playing with our kids, can we?" she said before voting against the bill.across the U.S. this year to push back on LGBTQ+ freedoms, especially targeting transgender people’s everyday lives — including sports, health care, bathrooms, workplaces and schools.At least 20 states have imposed
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