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Arizona Federal Judge Temporarily Rules Males Can Compete in Girls’ Sports

Last week, a federal judge in Tucson, Arizona, ruled in favor of the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction blocking a state law that would prevent males from participating in girls’ sports. Arizona’s Save Women’s Sports Act was passed in 2022 and signed into law by then-Gov. Doug Ducey, ensuring that “…athletic teams or sports designated for ‘females,’ ‘women,’ or ‘girls’ may not be open to students of the male sex.”

Prior to the law’s passage in 2022, the Arizona Interscholastic Association (AIA) had a policy allowing males to play on girls’ sports teams if they submitted a request that was approved by a “committee of medical and psychiatric experts, and consistent with AIA health and safety policy and if not motivated by an improper purpose.”

Arizona is not the only state to pass a law protecting girls’ sports. At least 20 other states have passed similar laws, most of which are also facing legal challenges. . .

However, the order, written by Obama-appointed Judge Jennifer Zipps, makes numerous “findings of facts and conclusions of law,” most of which sound like gobbledygook pulled straight from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) website.

According to Judge Zipps, the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on their claims that the Arizona law is unconstitutional because the two transgender plaintiffs, 11 and 15 years old, respectively, have taken medication that prevents them from going through male puberty. (Read more from “Arizona Federal Judge Temporarily Rules Males Can Compete in Girls’ Sports” HERE)

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Kansas Lawmakers Override Dem Governor’s Veto to Ban Trans Athletes From Women’s Sports

On Wednesday, lawmakers in Kansas overrode Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto and banned transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports, kindergarten through high school.

Another measure approved by Kansas lawmakers this week would prevent students who identify as transgender from using public restrooms and other facilities that align with their gender identity instead of their biological sex. Reportedly, Kelly is expected to veto the legislation. Other legislation would ban irreversible transgender care, dubbed by the left as “gender-affirming care,” for children.

On Twitter, Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall (R), who is a doctor, praised the legislation.

In Kansas, we believe in science. We believe women are born women. We will never waiver in our fight to stand up for biological women in sports and never accept men competing in women’s sports,” he wrote.

(Read more from “Kansas Lawmakers Override Dem Governor’s Veto to Ban Trans Athletes From Women’s Sports” HERE)

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Biden Admin Releases New Rules That Bar States From Banning Transgender Athletes

The Biden administration released on Thursday new Title IX rules that bar schools that receive federal funding from enforcing policies that ban biological males from playing girl’s sports.

The U.S. Department of Education proposed to amend Title IX in order to set out a standard that would “govern a recipient’s adoption or application of sex-related criteria that would limit or deny a student’s eligibility to participate on a male or female athletic team consistent with their gender identity.”

The proposed regulation also would provide needed clarity on how schools can ensure that students have equal opportunity to participate on male and female athletic teams as required by Title IX.

“The proposed rule would establish that policies violate Title IX when they categorically ban transgender students from participating on sports teams consistent with their gender identity just because of who they are,” a notice from the Department of Education states. (Read more from “Biden Admin Releases New Rules That Bar States From Banning Transgender Athletes” HERE)

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