Republican introduces anti-trans legislation that could lead 2 genital exam

[BUtterfield 8 41,819]

A Congressional Republican has introduced a federal bill that would ban transgender girls and women from participating in school sports.

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) introduced H.R. 426 yesterday, which would threaten federal funds to state and local athletics organizations if they allow “a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.”

The bill does not describe exactly how schools should determine what someone’s sex assigned at birth is, just vaguely stating that “sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”

In a press release, Steube touted support from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, a Christian organization run by men that has already attacked President Joe Biden for supporting “further expansions of abortion and contraception.”

Steube said in the release that the point of the bill is to help cisgender women participate in women’s sports.

Steube introduced the same legislation in the U.S. House early last year, and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) introduced a similar bill later in the year. Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) introduced similar legislation in the U.S. Senate.

In 2019 and 2020, a wave of Republicans in state legislatures all over the country introduced bills to ban transgender girls and women from school sports, and Idaho Republicans succeeded in passing one such bill, which is being challenged in federal court.

The Idaho law allows for a female student athlete’s gender to be “challenged” and requires the athlete to undergo medical exams to “prove” it. A doctor, the law says, will have to examine the athlete’s genitalia, hormones, and DNA and make a determination of their sex, something that Democrats pointed out is not recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Steube’s 2021 bill does not say how state and local sports governing bodies should define or check a student athlete’s “reproductive biology and genetics at birth”; all the bill does is threaten their federal funding if they don’t. The bill contains no language banning states or schools from using forced genital or DNA exams on girls and women who want to participate in school sports.

His bill also doesn’t have similar requirements for boys or men who want to participate in sports, meaning that the genital exams would only be for girls and women.

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[Cameltoe Chariot 15,310]

Republicans are OBSESSED with kids genitals. It's f*cking disgusting.

[LaLuna 12,732]

Republicans are truly the scum of the earth 

[Jonathanholland 5,429]

blessed be the fruit

[Chic 20,830]

Repubs will freak out about pedophiles in the government but then vehemently vote for someone who's about to give pedophiles better access to their prey's bodies

[LIKELADYAGAGA 4,080]

I don't understand how people like this man exist. 

[vyniildisk 12,689]

Can Biden do something now that he is president? 

[AnglerfishbraBENUS 5,734]

do they think that all trans kids are super human androids??? I’m a cis male and at that age I would be crushed by a team of girls 

[SharkmanthaC 115,076]

Why do we care what genitals someone has?

I swear....there are people dying of covid right now. This should be the least of concern.

[Slappy 407]

Do these people not have other things to do? It just seems strange to me when politicians focus on issues like that.. 

[Chromatican 4,046]

Honestly this whole transgender sports debate is such an insignificant issue facing Americans. It takes into account a minority (female athletes), an even smaller minority (transgender people), an even tinier minority (transgender athletes), and then uses the issue as a wedge political issue to divide people. Honestly I hope this whole debate makes society realize how we overestimate the seriousness of athletics in general.

[TheOriginalOne 11,605]

There’s truly no such things as Separation of Church and state 

They do things like this to “protect women” but then refuse women birth control, abortion rights, and ask “did they provoke it with their clothing” when women are sexually abused. 

[shoful 13,304]

Wtf is wrong with people. Why do old gross men have to have a say in any woman’s rights

[chromatic puzea 10,653]

this is so disgusting and humiliating to the trans community

it also completely ignores that intersex people can exsist

they really want to boil down gender to what's between your legs and just for some school volleyball match?

[Gabe 2,619]

Wont go anywhere now thank god. Sicko.