{"id":125177,"date":"2021-02-11T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=125177"},"modified":"2021-02-11T21:13:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T02:13:07","slug":"tenn-gov-lee-transgender-athletes-would-destroy-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tenn-gov-lee-transgender-athletes-would-destroy-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenn. Gov. Lee: Transgender athletes would \u2018destroy women\u2019s sports\u2019"},"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\">18<\/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%2Ftenn-gov-lee-transgender-athletes-would-destroy-womens-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=125177&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 id=\"attachment_2371341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2371341\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2371341 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21040032909604-655x437.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee delivers his State of the State Address in War Memorial Auditorium, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo\/Mark Humphrey)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2371341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee delivered his State of the State Address in War Memorial Auditorium, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo\/Mark Humphrey)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:08 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, February 11, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Gov. Bill Lee (R-Tenn.) said transgender athletes should be banned from playing on middle and high school sports teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do believe that transgenders participating in women\u2019s sports will destroy women\u2019s sports,\u201d Lee stated.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came as Republicans continue to push legislation which would require student athletes to prove their sex matches their original birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an obligation to make sure that our sports are fair,\u201d State Rep. Scott Cepicky (R-Tenn.) stated. \u201cThat you are competing against individuals like you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the bill said transgender athletes competing in \u201ctraditionally gendered\u201d sports would have an unfair advantage because they are naturally stronger, faster and bigger than those identified as female at birth. Opponents have criticized the legislation, saying it discriminates against transgender children.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Heidi Campbell (D-Tenn.) took to Twitter to call Lee\u2019s comments \u201churtful,\u201d and an insult to the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a hurtful thing for a leader to say. There have been zero incidents of this being an issue. This is just hate legislation, and to double down with an insult to our LGBTQ community is unnecessary. Let&#8217;s elect leaders who care about ALL Tennesseans! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AbfdVgbCpZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/AbfdVgbCpZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Heidi Campbell (@campbelltn20) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/campbelltn20\/status\/1359567996658851840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Arguments over the bill began after Joe Biden signed an executive order which barred schools from denying students access to sports based on their gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the order, Lee said transgender students participating in school sports would deny female athletes college opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will ruin the opportunity for girls to earn scholarships, it will put a glass ceiling back over women that hasn\u2019t been there and sometimes I think it\u2019s bad for women and for women\u2019s sports,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n<p>Lee went on to call Biden\u2019s order a tremendous overreach of the federal government into the states.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/reports-gates-fauci-speak-regularly-about-covid-19\/\">Reports: Gates, Fauci Speak Regularly About COVID-19<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893257,"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":[4690,6476,6475,4019,4694,4995],"class_list":["post-125177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-athletes","tag-lee","tag-tenn","tag-transgender","tag-womens","tag-would"],"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\/125177","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=125177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}