Three trans girls playing sports is an emergency for Kansas Republicans

[Nevilledog]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/08/kansas-transgender-students-sports-week-in-patriarchy

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We’re in Kansas now, Toto, show us your genitals

According to the Kansas State High School Activities Association, about 106,000 students participate in the organization’s sports and activities. Guess how many of those students are transgender girls? Three. That’s right, just three.

Three transgender girls enjoying sports is apparently an emergency for Kansas Republicans. For the last few years they’ve been trying to pass a bill that would ban transgender girls and women from participating in female sports at public schools and colleges. The Democratic governor, Laura Kelly, vetoed the bill but, on Wednesday, the Republican-dominated Kansas legislature finally got enough votes to override the veto. Not only are transgender students now restricted from participating in school sports, parents can sue if they think their daughter didn’t make a team because a transgender girl took their place. (The focus of the bill is very much on transgender girls and doesn’t say much about trans boys.)

Republicans excel at passing deliberately vague bills, whose main purpose is seemingly to terrorize minorities rather than lay out clear law. This bill is no exception: it is very short and doesn’t say how they would determine whether someone is trans. This has led some people to provide their own interpretations.

“Kansas Republicans have successfully overridden the Governor veto to now authorize genital inspections of children in order for kids to play sports,” a viral tweet claimed. While that tweet got thousands of likes it should be noted that the bill doesn’t say anything explicit about genital inspections. However, it’s certainly not a gigantic leap to think something like this might be implemented. A 2021 version of the bill contained language stating that a dispute regarding a student’s sex might be resolved by a “health examination”. Further, during a House meeting in February, state representative Barbara Wasinger, who introduced the legislation, was asked how it would be enforced and answered that it would be via a “sports physical”. Does this mean a “genital inspection”, a Democrat asked. Wasinger said she couldn’t recall. I don’t know about you, but if I introduced legislation that would have a massive impact on people’s lives, I’d try and recall a few details about it.

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[LymphocyteLover]

1. And 2 of them are graduating this year so this law will affect one person

[maxsolomon]

2. I asked this question about GAC for minors last week.

"How many are we actually talking about in a state as small as KS?"

No hard numbers on that, but it's good to have numbers in this case - as I suspected, it's a VAST OVERREACTION to a largely hypothetical "threat". 3/106.000 is .003%.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Transgirls

Eve was the first transgender - by creation.

For the Bible folks:::

Eve was the first transgender. Originally 100% male.

God was OK with it.

[Initech]

4. Never mind things like crime, shootings, poverty, or the state going broke.

Social media conspiracy theories are apparently far more important. Priorities.