{"id":125168,"date":"2021-02-11T20:49:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T01:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=125168"},"modified":"2021-02-11T21:12:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T02:12:58","slug":"utah-house-moves-forward-with-bill-to-ban-transgender-athletes-in-school-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utah-house-moves-forward-with-bill-to-ban-transgender-athletes-in-school-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah House Moves Forward With Bill To Ban Transgender Athletes In School Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futah-house-moves-forward-with-bill-to-ban-transgender-athletes-in-school-sports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=125168&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-495558128-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A committee of the Utah House of Representatives advanced a bill on Thursday to ban biological boys from competing on female sports teams in the state\u2019s public and private K-12 schools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/le.utah.gov\/~2021\/bills\/static\/HB0302.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HB302<\/a>, titled the Preserving Sports for Female Students bill,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/le.utah.gov\/~2021\/bills\/static\/HB0302.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed<\/a>&nbsp;on an 8-6 vote and was introduced by state&nbsp;Rep. Kera Birkeland, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/politics\/2021\/02\/11\/utah-house-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Salt Lake Tribune<\/a>. If passed, it would require all schools to delineate whether sports are \u201cmale,\u201d \u201cfemale,\u201d or \u201ccoed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which defines sex as the \u201cbiological, physical condition of being male or female, determined by an individual\u2019s genetics and anatomy at birth,\u201d would forbid biological males from competing in female sports, regardless of their gender identity. The bill will subsequently move to a full House vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcross America, there are stories of individuals who identified as male at birth competing against our female athletes,\u201d &nbsp;Birkeland argued, who is also a junior varsity high school basketball coach. \u201cThese individuals who identify as male at birth are breaking records that no female will be able to reach. They\u2019re taking championships, titles, and scholarships from our female athletes. To say it\u2019s taking a toll on our female athletes would be an understatement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill also met with pushback, such as from pediatrician and public health advocated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/politics\/2018\/03\/12\/doctor-focused-on-preventing-overdose-deaths-in-salt-lake-city-now-plans-to-run-for-jim-dabakis-state-senate-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jennifer Plumb,<\/a>&nbsp;who said, \u201cWe hear that there is not one transgender athlete playing right now in our state schools.&nbsp;I\u2019ll tell you what we have had: between 2017 and 2019, we had 414 young Utahns kill themselves. We need to think about what we\u2019re doing here when we put bills in place that already take a vulnerable population and say they do not matter. Please support our kids. This is a problem that does not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently expressed their intention to go after states that ban transgender individuals from school sports. In a lengthy Twitter thread, the ACLU attempted to bust several alleged \u201cmyths\u201d about trans athletes.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aclu-issues-twitter-thread-allegedly-debunking-myths-about-trans-students-in-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The next two \u201cmyths\u201d the ACLU attempted to bust were that trans athletes have an unfair advantage in sports and that allowing biological men to compete against women could be dangerous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTrans athletes do not have an unfair advantage in sports,\u201d they asserted. \u201cTrans athletes vary in athletic ability just like cisgender athletes. In many states, the very same cis girls who have claimed that trans athletes have an \u2018unfair\u2019 advantage have consistently performed as well as or better than transgender competitors.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Regarding the claim that biological men competing against biological women could prove problematic, the ACLU assured that \u201cincluding trans athletes will benefit everyone.\u201d Far worse, they claimed, would be to exclude trans women from women\u2019s sports because it would hurt all women. \u201cIt invites gender policing that could subject any woman to invasive tests and accusations of being \u2018too masculine\u2019 or \u2018too good\u2019 at their sport to be a \u2018real\u2019 woman.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aclu-issues-twitter-thread-allegedly-debunking-myths-about-trans-students-in-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ACLU Issues Twitter Thread Allegedly Debunking \u2018Myths\u2019 About Trans Students In Sports<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A committee of the Utah House of Representatives advanced a bill on Thursday to ban biological boys from competing on female sports teams in the state\u2019s public and private K-12 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893256,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3895,6474,3653,5368,5764,3635],"class_list":["post-125168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bill","tag-forward","tag-house","tag-moves","tag-utah","tag-with"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}