{"id":1411114,"date":"2022-03-30T17:45:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T21:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411114"},"modified":"2022-03-30T17:45:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T21:45:53","slug":"arizona-governor-signs-bills-protecting-womens-sports-preventing-minors-from-gender-reassignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-governor-signs-bills-protecting-womens-sports-preventing-minors-from-gender-reassignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Governor Signs Bills Protecting Women\u2019s Sports, Preventing Minors From Gender Reassignment"},"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\">24<\/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%2Farizona-governor-signs-bills-protecting-womens-sports-preventing-minors-from-gender-reassignment%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=1411114&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">State also prohibits abortions after 15 weeks<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tArizona governor Doug Ducey (R.) \/ AP\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/josh-christenson\/\" title=\"Posts by Josh Christenson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Josh Christenson<\/a> \u2022 March 30, 2022 5:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Arizona governor Doug Ducey (R.) signed bills on Wednesday that ban biological men from participating in girl&#8217;s sports, make gender reassignment surgeries illegal for minors, and prohibit abortions past 15 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said the laws will promote &#8220;fairness&#8221; in girl&#8217;s sports and protect children from going through irreversible gender surgeries. In addition, the 15-week abortion prohibition, he said, will uphold the state&#8217;s responsibility to defend &#8220;every life\u2014including pre-born life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after transgender swimmer Lia Thomas&#8217;s controversial NCAA championship win\u2014a signal event in women&#8217;s sports history. The decision to let Thomas compete has been harshly criticized and in some cases prompted responses from Republican governors. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) in an official state declaration last week <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/desantis-recognizes-female-ncaa-athlete-not-lia-thomas-as-top-womens-swimmer\/\">recognized<\/a> Sarasota native Emma Weyant, not Thomas, as the winner of the NCAA women&#8217;s 500-yard freestyle. Thomas competed as a male until this season and placed in multiple men&#8217;s events at the 2019 Ivy League Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Transgender athletes can retain advantages over their competitors. A 2020 study published in the <em>British Journal of Sports Medicine<\/em> found that men who transition into women remain both stronger and faster than their peers after one year of hormone therapy. Thomas started therapy in 2019 but still has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10445679\/Lia-Thomas-UPenn-teammate-says-trans-swimmer-doesnt-cover-genitals-locker-room.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">male body parts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A majority of Americans believe athletes should participate on teams that correspond with their birth gender, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/350174\/mixed-views-among-americans-transgender-issues.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> a May 2021 Gallup poll. Studies have also shown more than two-thirds of children <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/futureofyou\/441784\/the-controversial-research-on-desistance-in-transgender-youth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cease<\/a> to express a desire to gender transition once they are fully grown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This legislation is common-sense and narrowly targeted to address these two specific issues\u2060\u2014while ensuring that transgender individuals continue to receive the same dignity, respect and kindness as every individual in our society,&#8221; Ducey in <a href=\"https:\/\/azgovernor.gov\/governor\/news\/2022\/03\/governor-ducey-signs-common-sense-legislation-maintain-fairness-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement<\/a> said of the bill promoting sex-specific sports.<\/p>\n<p>State representative Shawnna Bolick, a Republican who supported the bill, said it has created a level playing field for female athletes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This bill to me is all about biology,&#8221; Bolick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.12news.com\/article\/news\/local\/arizona\/gov-doug-ducey-signs-bills-restricting-trans-athletes-surgeries\/75-cff29922-b499-44fd-8681-e3968b6fc280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> a local NBC News affiliate. &#8220;In my opinion, it&#8217;s unfair to allow biological males to compete with biological girls sports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ducey is the 14th governor to sign legislation preventing male-to-female transgender athletes from participating in girl&#8217;s sports. He is the first to sign a 15-week abortion ban into law, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/article\/2022\/03\/2022-state-legislative-sessions-abortion-bans-and-restrictions-medication-abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> the Guttmacher Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-week abortion prohibition will apply to physicians, not women, and unlike legislation signed in May 2021 by Texas governor Greg Abbott (R.), citizens may not sue abortion providers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics State also prohibits abortions after 15 weeks  Arizona governor Doug Ducey (R.) \/ AP  Josh Christenson \u2022 March 30, 2022 5:30 pm Arizona<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411114","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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}