North Carolina Republicans have filed a flurry of bills aimed at transgender youth as they look to capitalize on their newly attained supermajority.
Five Senate bills filed this week before the chamber's Thursday filing deadline would ban gender-affirming medical procedures for transgender youth and prohibit them from participating in middle and high school sports consistent with their gender identity.
Republican lawmakers across the U.S. have pursued several hundred proposals this year to push back on the rights on transgender residents, including sports bans, restroom restrictions, medical treatment prohibitions and requirements that schoolsBefore Cotham's announcement Wednesday, North Carolina Republicans had avoided some of the most stringent transgender restrictions passed in other Southern states, while the threat of Cooper's veto still loomed.
“We should all be able to evolve, and we should not be shamed for learning new perspectives at all,” Cotham said. The proposed restriction would designate school sports teams by biological sex, determined by “reproductive biology and genetics at birth." Sponsors did not have an explanation Thursday for how the sex designation would be enforced. House leadership“This bill is not against anybody, but it is for all women," said Sen. Vickie Sawyer, an Iredell County Republican and primary sponsor.
Former University of North Carolina women’s basketball head coach Sylvia Hatchell said separate sex categories have allowed the greatest female athletes in history to shine. “I am not against transgender, but there is a place — in a completely separate category,” Hatchell said.
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