Just as a bill is being put into the NH House hopper that would prevent biological boys compete on biological girls teams, so is this bill from Tennessee. And has a whale of a penalty if some government official allows it to happen (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Proposed bill would prevent transgender females from competing in women’s sports
Proposal applies to students at elementary and secondary schools in TennesseeA new Tennessee bill would prevent transgender females from competing in biological female sports.
According to The Tennessee Star, HB 1572 would require students at elementary and secondary schools to compete in sports based on their biological sex. State Rep. Bruce Griffey (R) submitted the bill, which would force schools to comply with such gender segregation and would pose fines up to $10,000 for non-compliance with the bill, if passed. The measure points out that violations of such a policy would also result in schools losing public funding sources…
Griffey told the Star that sex and gender simply can’t be changed because people feel a certain way.
“We are seeing more and more transgender athletes competing and posting victories in traditionally gendered sports competitions, and doing so to the detriment of girls and women biologically born female,” Griffey admitted. “Boys and men, due to testosterone levels, bigger bone structure, greater lung capacity, and larger heart size, have physical advantages in sports relative to girls and women.”
The problem is that the militant LGBT activists (and the ACLU here in NH) have used the traditional Leftist tactics to force edu-institutions and the public to accept that which is not reality (e.g., a man cannot be a woman) and work hard to shut down any dissent (by calling people fearful, uneducated, bigoted – you know, all the regular epithets they use to “Other” those opposed to their fantasy thinking).
Reality means nothing to these folks – only their ideological result matters even when it can be shown that such a result ends up hurting others (the old Marxist axiom of “to get an omelette, ya gotta break a few eggs”), especially if it is YOUR daughter(s). The reality is that, passed the age of puberty, girls can’t compete with boys on the equivalent spots on the respect sex/gender bell curves of ability, size, speed, strength, endurance, and athleticism.
Back to the bill – this is a “no fooling around” kinda bill! Go ahead read it below (emphasis mine)
(H/T: The Blaze)
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Here’s the bill:
HOUSE BILL 1572
By Griffey
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to school sports.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 3, is amended by adding the following new section:
(a) Each elementary and secondary school in this state that receives any type of public funding from this state or a local government, or both, shall require, for an official or unofficial school-sanctioned athletic or sporting event, that each athlete participating in the athletic or sporting event participates with and competes against other athletes based on the athlete’s biological sex as indicated on the athlete’s original birth certificate issued at the time of birth. A school shall not accept any birth certificate for purposes of participation in an athletic or sporting event that has been revised or amended with respect to the sex of an athlete.
(b) An elementary school or secondary school that violates subsection (a) is immediately ineligible to continue to receive public funds of any type from this state or a local government. If the department of education and a court of competent jurisdiction, through the issuance of a declaratory order, find that the school is in compliance with this section, public funding must be restored.
(c)
(1) A district attorney general shall bring a civil action in circuit court against a state or local official who willfully and intentionally commits an act that violates, or that is designed or intended to violate or frustrate, this section. In conducting a trial under this subdivision (c)(1), the court shall conduct the trial in the same manner as the court would conduct a criminal trial, and the official against whom the civil action is brought has the same rights as a person charged with a criminal offense for purposes of conducting the trial.
(2) The civil penalty for a violation of this section is not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
(3) Upon a finding that a state or local official has willfully and intentionally committed an act that violates, or that is designed or intended to violate or frustrate, this section, the office of the official is immediately vacated, and the former official is not eligible to hold public office or a position as a school administrator or principal for a period of five (5) years.
(d) As used in this section, “local official” includes a school administrator and principal.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring
I can’t see anyone calling any part of this “ambiguous” in any way and that the penalties unknown. Actually, to the latter, it lays out pretty big hits: $10K and lose your job for 5 years.
Good for State Rep. Bruce Griffey (R) for standing up for basic biological science and reality.
