A ban on transgender student-athletes playing on girls and women’s sports teams in Ohio cleared a House education panel along partisan lines Wednesday, the latest attempt at such a measure first introduced by Republican lawmakers in 2021.
The proposal would require K-12 schools as well as universities to designate “separate teams” for male and female sexes, but explicitly bans transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports while leaving the door open for transgender athletes to play on male or co-ed teams.
Supporters say the proposal is about fairness in competition and maintaining the “integrity of women’s sports,” although Republican lawmakers and those who have testified in favor of the proposal have not been able to offer specific instances where transgender participation has been an issue in Ohio.
They also point out that the Ohio High School Athletic Association already has policies in place for transgender athletes, which advocates say are strict enough. Those include requiring transgender girls to have completed at least one year of hormone therapy and to demonstrate that they do not “possess physical or physiological advances over genetic females.”
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