Ohio House Passes Bill Banning Trans Women From Female Sport, Doctor Will ‘Verify’ Gender
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Republicans in Ohio passed a bill, 56 to 28, that would not only ban transgender women from high school and university sport. It would also institute a “verification process” in order to enforce the ban.聽
The ‘Save Women’s Sports Act,’ or House Bill 61 was added as a substitute bill, to House Bill 151 which would revise the State鈥檚 Teacher Residency Program.
Under the substitute bill, schools and universities would be required to create separate male/female teams.聽
It also bans 鈥渋ndividuals of the male sex to participate on athletic teams or in athletic competitions designated only for participants of the female sex.鈥�
Includes a ‘Verification Process’
According to the text of the bill, 鈥淚f anyone questions an athlete鈥檚 biological sex, regardless of gender identification, the athlete would have to present a signed doctor鈥檚 note indicating the student鈥檚 sex via:
鈥淭he participant鈥檚 internal and external reproductive anatomy, the participant鈥檚 normal endogenously produced levels of testosterone, an analysis of the participant鈥檚 genetic makeup.鈥�
As I was saying… The Ohio Republicans passed a bill last night requiring internal and external genital inspections of children in order to play sports. I (and all of my other Democrat colleagues) voted NO. Full bill below.
— Senator Beth Liston (@Liston4Ohio)
Legislative policy director for Equality Ohio Maria Bruno, in response, said, 鈥淚 know that there are a lot of folks in the 17c起草社区 community who are sitting there asking themselves, ‘What did I do to them? because they keep coming after me’ and I can’t blame them for having that perspective. But the answer is nothing, just existing.”
The Bill now moves onto the Ohio Senate.
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