Wonkette: Ohio Republicans Demand Right To Inspect Children's Genitals

[Nevilledog]

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This week, Ohio House Republicans decided to relive their high school bully glory days by passing a bill banning kids they don't like from sports.

On the first day of Pride Month, no less, these grown ass adults took a bill (HB 151) about revising the Ohio Teacher Residency Program that did not have jack shit to do with their agenda and amended it to enact their insipidly titled "Save Women's Sports Act" (HB 61), which will not only ban transgender students from taking part in sports, it will allow parents, teachers, or literally any uninvolved stranger to demand a physician perform "external and internal genital inspections," testosterone level checks, and genetic makeup tests of any student athlete they merely suspect may be transgender.

It is not clear who would be paying for this service.

As an added bit of grossness, the bill also includes provisions protecting those who try to out student athletes as being transgender by forcing them to undergo such an evaluation — it allows them to sue if they experience any "adverse action" as a result of their bullying.

Any participant who is subject to retaliation or other adverse action by a school, school district, interscholastic conference, or organization that regulates interscholastic athletics as a result of reporting a violation of this section shall have a private cause of action for injunctive relief, damages, and any other relief available against the entity that takes the retaliatory or other adverse action.

As an aside, if these people think the only kids who are going to be subjected to these "genital inspections" are trans kids they don't care about, they must not remember school very well. There is no question that there will be little assholes demanding that every kid they hate and don't want on their team be humiliated in this way. They may end up having to pay for a doctor's visit so that their own kid can be "inspected" so that the doctor can report back to their bully that they are the gender they say they are, just so they can be on the field hockey team.

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[AlexSFCA]

1. the laws are getting more ridiculous because the courts are failing to protect basic rights

no way a law like this could stand with a healthy court system, it is such an obvious and blatant violation of privacy that they don’t even try to hide it.

[Mystery sage]

2. Disgusting!!!

What wrong with these people!!!

[vlyons]

3. oh good grief

well that's pretty distressing. How long before they make it a criminal offense to do anything to change a child's gender?

[Hekate]

11. Happening already in Texas

[MiHale]

4. Flood the system with bogus claims...

Republican tactic: overwhelm the testing place with so many claims it would take months or years to settle stuff. How would they know if it was not true?

[usonian]

5. Is it called the Sandusky law?

Asking for a friend.

[PittBlue]

7. Brilliant...

[crickets]

8. +1

[Mopar151]

6. And there we have it.

Whole lot of fools runnin for "Chief Pecker Checker", because "we have a right to know!"

[usonian]

9. Now accepting applications. Please state party affiliation.

[Hekate]

10. This is very destructive of girls' and women's sports. It's an extra gauntlet to run for ANY girl...

…who wants to be in sports — she has to be subject to a humiliating exercise than anyone jealous of her abilities can call down on her.

Once again — this is about controlling the bodies and the activities of anyone female. Just as banning abortion is not about “saving babies,” this latest move is about control over girls and women.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

12. What was that, QOP? Who's "grooming" again?

Yeah. That's right. They've spent 2022 terrorizing people like me or our allies. "Groomers". Passing hateful, draconian law after another, targeting LGBTQ's. Healthcare for your trans teen is "child abuse". Being an ally makes you a "groomer".

And who is wanting to inspect the genitals of kids? Yep. The QOP. The "freedom" party. The "small government" party. The collection of punk-ass Nazis who can count Groper Don the Con and Groomer Gaetz among their own. Maybe we need to call you sick fucks the JDP - Josh Duggar Party.

If I were in school and my mom were alive? Something like this would not end well.. Same if I had a kid and these fucking pedos wanted to inspect my kid's genitals.

Total invasion of privacy. Totally sick. Ohhh, and guess what? This isn't about saving women's sports, because these smooth-brained cavemen don't care about women's sports. This is about further cruelty to trans people - or anyone who doesn't fit a gender stereotype. Let's just fuck with trans people some more... Not like we suffer enough.

Meanwhile, count on the regressive government of Kentucky North to attack women's sports real soon. Can't be wasting THE Ohio State University's football money on women's sports, now can we?