{"id":923864,"date":"2021-10-26T09:28:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=923864"},"modified":"2021-10-26T09:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:28:49","slug":"abbott-signs-bill-banning-biological-boys-from-competing-on-girls-sports-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abbott-signs-bill-banning-biological-boys-from-competing-on-girls-sports-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott Signs Bill Banning Biological Boys From Competing On Girls Sports Teams"},"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%2Fabbott-signs-bill-banning-biological-boys-from-competing-on-girls-sports-teams%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=923864&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<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"40.469722222222\">\n<p>Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation Monday completely banning biological boys from competing on girls sports teams \u2014 and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/capitol.texas.gov\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=873&amp;Bill=HB25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legislation<\/a> prohibits transgender athletes from playing on public school sports teams that align with their gender identity rather than biological sex. The law will take effect in January and applies to all public schools, including universities.<\/p>\n<p>The state previously <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/27\/texas-house-democrats-stall-vote-trans-athlete-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prohibited<\/a> transgender athletes from participating on sports teams that aligned with their gender identity but allowed for exceptions if the student legally changed their birth certificate, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2021\/10\/25\/texas-transgender-students-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Texas Tribune<\/a>. The new legislation removes that option.<\/p>\n<p>Republican State Rep. Valoree Swanson, who sponsored the bill, said during a committee hearing it\u2019s \u201cvery important that we protect everything that women have gained in the last 50 years,\u201d according to the Texas Tribune. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/27\/six-biological-sexes-democrat-transgender-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018In Fact,\u2019 There\u2019s Actually \u2018Six\u2019 Genders, Democrat Says With A Straight Face At An Actual Policy Hearing)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Equality Texas, a statewide political advocacy organization, criticized the new law in a tweet, calling it a form of \u201cdiscrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.594594594595\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If Texans want to protect children, the goal shouldn\u2019t be to prevent trans kids from participating in sports, but to give all kids the freedom to make friends &amp; play without fearing the kind of discrimination many older trans people face on a daily basis.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aiMFlqYEpY\">https:\/\/t.co\/aiMFlqYEpY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Equality Texas (@EqualityTexas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EqualityTexas\/status\/1452667948972314632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf Texans want to protect children, the goal shouldn\u2019t be to prevent trans kids from participating in sports, but to give all kids the freedom to make friends &amp; play without fearing the kind of discrimination many older trans people face on a daily basis,\u201d the organization wrote.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation Monday completely banning biological boys from competing on girls sports teams \u2014 and vice versa.The legislation prohibits transgender athletes from playing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-923864","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\/923864","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=923864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923864\/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=923864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}