{"id":1423897,"date":"2022-04-07T13:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423897"},"modified":"2022-04-07T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:00:28","slug":"kentucky-governor-vetoes-bill-protecting-female-athletes-from-trans-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kentucky-governor-vetoes-bill-protecting-female-athletes-from-trans-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Governor Vetoes Bill Protecting Female Athletes from Trans Competition"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fkentucky-governor-vetoes-bill-protecting-female-athletes-from-trans-competition%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=1423897&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) vetoed a bill on Wednesday that would have prevented females from having to compete against biological males identifying as women from sixth grade up into college.<\/p>\n<p>The vetoed bill would have required athletes to compete in sports according to their gender.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Beshear is not the only governor to recently veto bills intended to protect women\u2019s sports from transgender competition. Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) and Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb (R) also rejected similar bills.<\/p>\n<p>In the explanation for his veto, Beshear claimed the bill would harm transgender children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransgender children deserve public officials\u2019 efforts to demonstrate that they are valued members of our communities through compassion, kindness and empathy, even if not understanding,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/kentucky-gov-andy-beshear-speaks-at-the-center-for-african-american-picture-id1232203492?k=20&#038;m=1232203492&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=eMHHT1QPTHt6Etn_HhQSqCIS7A5g3i57bEPmcZn1H_g=\" alt=\"Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks at the Center for African American Heritage during a bill signing event on April 9, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky....\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) (Jon Cherry\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Beshear also cited the\u00a0Kentucky High School Athletic Association\u2019s rules regarding transgender participation, which stipulate that transgender athletes must undergo hormone therapy after puberty to mitigate their physical advantages as men.<\/p>\n<p>However, as we\u2019ve seen with UPenn transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, hormone therapy does not reduce men\u2019s athletic advantage over women in sports.<\/p>\n<p>Lia Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-news\/trans-athlete-debate-penns-lia-thomas-loses-trans-yale-swimmer-rcna11622?msclkid=e4df7da1b68b11ec9958e04f8306f0e6\">took<\/a> testosterone blockers for 2 1\/2 years before joining the women\u2019s swimming team. Despite hormone therapy and his record as a thoroughly mediocre competitor on the men\u2019s side (462nd nationally), Thomas smashed multiple records on the women\u2019s side and beat top-level female Olympic competitors.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lia Thomas just took first place at the 2022 NCAA Division 1 Women&#8217;s Swimming &#038; Diving Championships in the 500 freestyle. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaveWomensSports?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaveWomensSports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UWvDQMYHRJ\">pic.twitter.com\/UWvDQMYHRJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwipeWright\/status\/1504586948400369671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Proving that hormone therapy and testosterone suppression does nothing to mitigate male advantages in bone density and structure, heart and lung size, or muscle mass.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas proved what sports scientists such as Ross Tucker have been saying: even an average male athlete on T therapy will be dominant against female athletes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Lia Thomas result last night is pretty straightforward \u2013  confirmation of hypothesis. Based on the physiology, it was predictable that a male athlete with sufficient base level athleticism would suppress T, retain enough physiological advantage &#038; thus performance, to win (1\/_<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ross Tucker (@Scienceofsport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Scienceofsport\/status\/1504713620403458049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, the vetoed bill, The Fairness in Women\u2019s Sports Act, passed with significant Republican support and could potentially override Governor Beshear\u2019s veto, ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/trans-sports-ban-vetoed-kentucky-governor\/story?id=83931596&#038;msclkid=f187d791b68911ec9b5ecfe184cb2135\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be crushing for a young lady to train her whole career to have it end up competing against a biological male in the state tournament or state finals,\u201d the bill\u2019s lead sponsor Senator Robby Mills (R), said.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 15 state legislatures have passed bills banning transgender athletes from women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) vetoed a bill on Wednesday that would have prevented females from having to compete against biological males identifying as women from sixth grade up into<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"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-1423897","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\/1423897","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\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423897\/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=1423897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}