Talk about "Ole Miss!"
Posted on 03/11/2021 6:22:52 AM PST by RandFan
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) is expected set to sign a bill on Thursday banning transgender athletes from competing on girls and women’s sports teams.
The legislation calls on K-12 schools, as well as colleges and universities, to designate all sports teams for men and boys, women and girls or “coed.” It states that “Athletic teams or sports designated for ‘females,’ ‘women’ or ‘girls’ shall not be open to students of the male sex.”
The bill passed the state’s Senate last month, and Mississippi House lawmakers passed the bill last week.
The bill will go into effect on July 1 after being signed by the governor.
Reeves earlier this month vowed that he will sign the legislation in order to “protect young girls from being forced to compete with biological males for athletic opportunities.”
He also slammed President Biden’s executive order he signed earlier this year banning discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.
States across the country have proposed restrictions on athletics for transgender students this year, seeking to block transgender children and young adults from playing on the teams that affirm their gender identity.
Critics of the legislation argue that it marginalizes transgender students from participating in activities that align with their gender.
The Human Right Campaign, an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, last week slammed the state’s passage of the bill, calling Mississippi “the first state in the nation to pass an explicitly anti-trans bill in 2021.”
“We are witnessing a coordinated effort to limit and erase trans existence across the country,” the group tweeted.
I love drag races!
Talk about "Ole Miss!"
Seems like there is enough of them the way the media carry on.
I expect the feds to come down on this quick and hard.
I’m a man.. pretending to be a women..hear me roar.
Actually, it forces students to only participate in activities which align with their gender.
This quite reasonable Mississippi law WILL be struck down by a federal judge. No doubt about it.
So how about this? Instead of saying “male” and “female”, base the law on XY and XX chromosomes. That law would have a better chance of surviving.
Why can’t they have a transgender “only” league and compete amongst their own?
They’d lose their competative advantage. Stop “marginalizing” them!!!
Um, it's not "anti-trans" it's pro-women. Funny the media now seems to have a problem with a bill that supports women.
I think the jest of this effort is that when the doctor explained everything (upon completion), they were rock-solid 100-percent ‘girl’. So in their mind...there are just two sexes....no transgender.
Isn’t it about having competitors with similar physical characteristics?
In boxing there are weight categories: lightweight, middleweight, heavyweight. No one complains about that.
It’s going to get interesting in Mississippi as the efforts to be competitive in sports at each level to continue to draw funds for the schools and how the state government is going to handler funding is going to be a real standoff. The only real weapon to enforce this type of rule to universities is cutting it. And the only real people that will be effected is going to be the students.
A state university system in the United States is a group of public universities supported by an individual state, territory or federal district. These systems constitute the majority of public-funded universities in the country. Each state supports at least one such system.
State university systems should not be confused with federally funded colleges and universities, at which attendance is limited to military personnel and government employees. Members of foreign militaries and governments also attend some schools. They do not receive state funds. These schools include the United States service academies, Naval Postgraduate School, and military staff colleges that train personnel in administration positions.
A state university system normally means a single legal entity and administration, but may consist of several institutions, each with its own identity as a university. Some states—such as California and Texas—support more than one such system.
State universities get subsidies from their states. The amount of the subsidy varies from university to university and state to state, but the effect is to lower tuition costs below those of private universities for students from that state or district. As more Americans attend college and private tuition rates increase well beyond the rate of inflation, admission to state universities is becoming more competitive.
But sports has become a the major “inhouse” funds generator and if the university tells the state to FO the state can, most likely, retard the programs with the pulling of funds. And it will force an increase in tuition, books, and tutoring time at the school,
State universities get subsidies from their states. The amount of the subsidy varies from university to university and state to state, but the effect is to lower tuition costs below those of private universities for students from that state or district.
So. like I say, it’s going to get interesting as when tuition goes up, the selection of schools can get brought down based upon cost to the colleges that are closer to having to work with a bottom line.
wy69
That would defeat the purpose of inflating their egos by whipping little girls...
He’s following the science so the left should be happy, right?
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