{"id":543616,"date":"2021-05-27T18:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T22:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=543616"},"modified":"2021-05-27T19:50:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T23:50:41","slug":"democrats-kill-texas-bill-on-transgender-athletes-by-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-kill-texas-bill-on-transgender-athletes-by-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Kill Texas Bill on Transgender Athletes by Filibuster"},"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%2Fdemocrats-kill-texas-bill-on-transgender-athletes-by-filibuster%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=543616&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\/05\/GetFile-475.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democrats&nbsp;in the Texas House of Representatives have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/2021\/05\/26\/texas-house-democrats-celebrate-demise-transgender-sports-bill\/7429499002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stalled<\/a>&nbsp;a bill on&nbsp;transgender athletes&nbsp;before it went&nbsp;to a vote, The Hill&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/555795-democrats-kill-texas-transgender-athlete-bill?rl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The measure&nbsp;would have required transgender athletes to compete on sports teams corresponding to their gender assigned at birth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bill, SB&nbsp;29, had already&nbsp;passed the&nbsp;state Senate, but it died Tuesday in the House, after Democrats ran out the clock with amendments and questions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/may\/27\/texas-democrats-kill-transphobic-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>The measure failed to receive a vote by midnight Tuesday, the &#8220;pass-or-die&#8221; deadline.<\/p>\n<p>A number&nbsp;of bills on transgender athletes&nbsp;have been proposed or passed across the U.S., largely in GOP-controlled states, including Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas, which&nbsp;have enacted similar bans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In March, South Dakota Gov.&nbsp;Kristi Noem, a Republican,&nbsp;signed an executive order essentially requiring that only girls play in girls&nbsp;sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the legislature\u2019s failure to accept my proposed revisions to HB 1217, I am immediately signing two executive orders to address this issue: one to protect fairness in K-12 athletics, and another to do so in college athletics,\u201d she said, NPR&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/03\/29\/982474861\/south-dakota-governor-bans-transgender-girls-from-sports-teams-by-executive-orde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&nbsp;have so far been&nbsp;more than 30 pieces of legislation proposed in 2021 to ban transgender women and girls from participating on sports teams that match their gender identity, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/16\/five-states-ban-transgender-girls-girls-school-sports-segregating-sports-by-sex-hurts-all-girls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to a tally from&nbsp;The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian reports that the Texas bill is the third of its kind to die in the state&#8217;s Legislature this session.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just an unnecessary, divisive bill that really harms, because even talking about the bill harms transgender youth in our state,\u201d said state Rep. Chris Turner (D), chair of the House Democratic Caucus, according to the&nbsp;Fort Worth Star-Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>However, the bill&#8217;s author,&nbsp;Republican state Sen. Charles Perry, told the Star-Telegram it is needed to provide a &#8220;fair and safe environment for women competitive athletes.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday,&nbsp;Texas&nbsp;Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) said that he would ask&nbsp;Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to call a special session in the summer to address the bill and &#8220;save girl sports.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats\u00a0in the Texas House of Representatives have\u00a0stalled\u00a0a bill on\u00a0transgender athletes\u00a0before it went\u00a0to a vote, The Hill\u00a0reported. 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