{"id":1479863,"date":"2022-05-18T16:30:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T20:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479863"},"modified":"2022-05-18T16:30:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T20:30:35","slug":"red-state-lawmakers-advance-bill-banning-male-athletes-from-competing-in-girls-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/red-state-lawmakers-advance-bill-banning-male-athletes-from-competing-in-girls-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Red State Lawmakers Advance Bill Banning Male Athletes From Competing In Girls\u2019 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%2Fred-state-lawmakers-advance-bill-banning-male-athletes-from-competing-in-girls-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=1479863&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><\/div>\n<p>The Louisiana House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday that would require elementary through college level athletes to participate in sports based on their biological sex rather than gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>An amended version of Senate Bill 44, titled the \u201cFairness in Women\u2019s Sports Act,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.la.gov\/legis\/BillInfo.aspx?i=241632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed<\/a> 72-21 in the House on Tuesday, where it was sponsored by Republican state Rep. Laurie Schlege. Republican state Sen. Beth Mizell first introduced Senate Bill 44, where it passed 29-6 in April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/LA\/text\/SB44\/id\/2569024\/Louisiana-2022-SB44-Engrossed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">require<\/a> \u201can athletic team or sporting event sponsored by an elementary, secondary, or postsecondary educational institution\u201d to be designated for biological males<strong>, <\/strong>biological females\u00a0or a coeducational team consisting of both sexes. The bill also allows for legal action from biological females who are directly or indirectly harmed by violations of the proposed legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The amended version of the bill will go back to the Louisiana Senate for another vote. If the amended bill passes in the Senate, it will go to Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards who will then either sign or veto the legislation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: Louisiana House passes SB44 transgender sports ban bill 72-21. Must return to Senate for perfunctory approval of amendment, but only real question is whether <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LouisianaGov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LouisianaGov<\/a> will veto the bill as he did last year. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lagov?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lagov<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lalege?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lalege<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Hilburn (@GregHilburn1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregHilburn1\/status\/1526693445703720961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Schlegel referenced University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/03\/lia-thomas-transgender-swim-university-pennsylvania-womens-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lia Thomas<\/a> while arguing in favor of the bill, stating that Thomas\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/17\/lia-thomas-ncaa-championships-university-of-pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NCAA victory<\/a> in March was unfair, the Louisiana Illuminator <a href=\"https:\/\/lailluminator.com\/2022\/05\/17\/transgender-athlete-ban-approved-in-louisiana-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/12\/mississippi-tate-reeves-transgender-athletes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Mississippi Becomes First State To Ban Transgender Students From Women\u2019s Sports)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several similar bills have been passed amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/03\/transgender-swimmer-lia-thomas-university-pennsylvania-teammates-letter-sex-gender-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surge<\/a> of concern regarding biological males participating in female sports. In Kentucky, Democratic lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/11\/kentucky-democrat-transgender-sports-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attempted to use<\/a> a biologically male transgender girl\u2019s lack of athletic skill to strike down legislation that would require students join sports team on the basis of biological sex.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards vetoed a similar bill in July 2021 that would have banned biological males from women\u2019s sports. Edwards stated at the time that the bill was \u201ca solution in search of a problem that simply does not exist in Louisiana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill will require 70 House votes to override a veto.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Louisiana House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday that would require elementary through college level athletes to participate in sports based on their biological sex rather than gender<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":1483609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479863","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\/1479863","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\/357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}