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Arizona State House Passes Bill Barring Biological Males From Girls’ Sports

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Lawmakers in Arizona moved a step closer to barring biological males from competing in girls’ sports.

According to a report Tuesday from the Arizona Republic, the state’s House of Representatives passed a bill that would close off designated female sports “to students of the male sex”:

The emotional hours-long debate on House Bill 2706 culminated in a party-line vote of 31-29, sending the measure to the state Senate, where it will become another flashpoint in the culture wars at the state Capitol.

Rep. Nancy Barto, a Phoenix Republican who is sponsoring the measure, argued it is necessary in the face of a lawsuit in Connecticut brought by the conservative Scottsdale-based group Alliance Defending Freedom and students who argue they unfairly lost out in competition with transgender athletes.

H.B. 2706 would require sports or teams sponsored by educational institutions to be designated as either coed, male or female, with biological males not being allowed to compete in female-designated events. (Read more from “Arizona State House Passes Bill Barring Biological Males From Girls’ Sports” HERE)

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High School Closes Gender-Neutral Bathroom After Student Is Arrested for Sexually Assaulting Another Student

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Authorities arrested an 18-year-old student at Rhinelander High School in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, after the student allegedly sexually assaulted one of his fellow students.

According to WSAW-TV, authorities arrested the 18-year-old student — identified as Austin Sauer — on Thursday on charges of child enticement, fourth-degree sexual assault, and exposing genitals to a child.

The Wisconsin Legislature defines fourth-degree sexual assault as “sexual contact with a person without the consent of that person.”

A spokesperson for the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office said the incident took place in the school’s gender-neutral bathroom. The school has now closed the bathroom to its student population.

Capt. Terri Hook said the school did not notify parents of the incident because it was reportedly an isolated occurrence. (Read more from “High School Closes Gender-Neutral Bathroom After Student Is Arrested for Sexually Assaulting Another Student” HERE)

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‘This Is Insane’: Piers Morgan Hits out at Transgender Athlete Laurel Hubbard

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One of Britain’s highest-profile media figures has taken aim at Kiwi transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard’s potential participation at the Tokyo Olympics.

Hubbard kept her hopes of competing at Tokyo alive last month when she won the women’s super-heavyweight weightlifting contest at the Roma World Cup, the first Olympic qualifying event of the year.

Controversial media personality Piers Morgan, who has over seven million followers on Twitter, took issue with Hubbard’s potential participation in Japan.

“This is insane. Women’s rights to basic fairness & equality are getting destroyed at the altar of political correctness,” Morgan posted on Twitter.

“Trans women born with biological male bodies have a massive physical advantage against women born with female bodies in any sport where power & strength are significant factors. This shouldn’t be a contentious claim, it’s just a rather obvious fact.

(Read more from “‘This Is Insane’: Piers Morgan Hits out at Transgender Athlete Laurel Hubbard” HERE)

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New Bill in Liberal State Would Require Toy Aisles to Be ‘Gender Neutral’; Don’t Be Stupid, of Course Kids Toys Aren’t Gender Neutral

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By The Blaze. As California faces a major homeless crisis, skyrocketing taxes, and serious affordable housing issues, a California state legislator is focused on issues that truly matter: gender-neutral toy aisles. . .

Proposed by Assemblyman Evan Low (D), Assembly Bill 2826 would apply to retail department stores with over 500 employees. If passed, the law would eliminate boys and girls aisles, and require that children’s toys be offered in one, gender-neutral section inside the store.

“A retail department store shall maintain one, undivided area of its sales floor where, if it sells childcare articles, all childcare articles, regardless of whether a particular item has traditionally been marketed for either girls or for boys, shall be displayed,” reads the text of the bill.

Low’s proposed legislation adds: “Keeping similar items that are traditionally marketed either for girls or for boys separated makes it more difficult for the consumer to compare the products and incorrectly implies that their use by one gender is inappropriate.” (Read more from “New Bill in Liberal State Would Require Toy Aisles to Be ‘Gender Neutral'” HERE)

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Don’t Be Stupid, of Course Kids Toys Aren’t Gender Neutral

By The Federalist. The latest nutty insanity to arise in the state of California is a proposed state ban on department stores having different sections for boys and girls toys and clothing. Now, this may well have been something you weren’t so aware was a pressing problem, but according to the California state legislature, this measure is needed to ensure consumers can compare products without “unjustified differences.”

What does that mean, exactly? It means exactly nothing. First of all, anyone who has ever been in a department store knows that if they wish to compare girls and boys toys, they are free two walk a distance, usually a few feet, to the next aisle and compare them. There is no border wall to surmount. It’s literally right there.

No, the purpose of this legislation has nothing to do with helping consumers and everything to do with trying to untether our children from natural and healthy predilections that have existed throughout time. Somehow these legislators have convinced themselves that the only reason boys like toy guns and actions figures while girls like tea sets and princesses is because the patriarchy has created these monstrous social constructs.

Almost any parent, who has not decided to engage in willing suspension of disbelief in the face of social justice claims, knows this is nonsense. Anyone who picks their kid up from school knows this. My son attends a diverse school with many immigrants from around the world. Upon being released from school, the vast majority of students display behavior typical to their gender. What a strange coincidence.

Are there exceptions to this? Certainly, and there is nothing wrong with masculine girls or feminine boys, this is a phenomenon with a long history. In fact, the irony is that many of the people who insist that feminine boys and masculine girls are literally of the other gender and require treatment for it, are the same ones now insisting that these gender differences don’t exist and should be removed from the marketplace. (Read more from “Don’t Be Stupid, of Course Kids Toys Aren’t Gender Neutral” HERE)

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Bill Banning Transgender Operations on Children to Move Forward In Alabama

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A bill to prohibit doctors from performing transgender medical treatments on minor-aged children moved ahead in two committees of the Alabama Legislature on Wednesday, bringing it another step closer to becoming law.

Introduced last week, the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, which is sponsored by Republican state lawmakers Rep. Wes Allen and Sen. Shay Shelnutt, would “prohibit the performance of a medical procedure or the prescription or issuance of medication, upon or to a minor child, that is intended to alter the minor child’s gender or delay puberty” and would make doing so a class C felony under state law. It does, however, make exception in the case of procedures “undertaken to treat a minor born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development.”

According to a story at AL.com, the bill is now ready to be considered and voted on in both of the state’s legislative chambers:

The Alabama House Health Committee approved Allen’s bill [Wednesday] morning after 10 people spoke at a public hearing on the measure, five in favor and five against. They included medical professionals on both sides and people with first-hand experiences on both sides. The committee approval moves the bill in line for consideration by the full House. . .

The Senate Health Committee followed with a public hearing on Shelnutt’s bill that included some of the same speakers and some different speakers. Both hearings drew overflow crowds. The Senate Health Committee approved Shelnutt’s bill on a 10-1 vote, sending it to the full Senate.

(Read more from “Bill Banning Transgender Operations on Children to Move Forward” HERE)

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Parents Sue School District for Allowing Children to Change Gender Identity Without Parental Notice

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A group of parents in Madison, Wisconsin, has filed a lawsuit against the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) for violating parental rights by implementing a policy that allows children to change their gender identity without parental notice or consent.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed the lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court on behalf of the parents. According to a press release from WILL, the school policy, issued in April 2018, also instructs district employees to “conceal and even deceive parents about the gender identity their son or daughter has adopted at school.”

The MMSD policy, titled “Guidance & Policies to Support Transgender, Non-binary & Gender-Expansive Students,” contains content and information provided by LGBTQ+ rights activist group GLSEN. . .

“Madison schools have adopted policies that violate constitutionally recognized parental rights,” said WILL President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg. “A public school district should not, and cannot, make decisions reserved for parents.”

In December, WILL issued a demand letter to Sherry Terrell-Webb, Interim General Legal Counsel of MMSD, calling upon the district to amend its policies in order to avoid a lawsuit. (Read more from “Parents Sue School District for Allowing Children to Change Gender Identity Without Parental Notice” HERE)

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Georgia At The Center Of Clash Between Religious And Gay And Transgender Groups Over Adoption

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Gay and transgender groups are on a collision course with religious adoption groups in Georgia as legislators advance a bill designed to protect religious freedom for adoption agencies.

The bill, which was read on Tuesday and is expected to work its way through the Senate in the coming weeks, ensures that adoption agencies would not be forced to place children anywhere that “violates certain religious or moral convictions.” It has raised an outcry from gay and transgender advocates.

Democratic state Rep. Matthew Wilson, a gay member of the legislature, criticized the bill upon its introduction in February as “hateful discrimination, pure and simple.”

The bill’s sponsor, Republican state Sen. Marty Harbin, countered by saying that his bill was only intended to protect the freedom of choice for mothers about how their children will be raised. . .

Advocacy groups have clashed over the bill as well. The gay and transgender rights group Georgia Equality criticizes the protections as “unconscionable,” according to a spokesman. On the other hand, religious groups have praised the effort for seeking to ensure “the welfare of children.” (Read more from “Georgia At The Center Of Clash Between Religious And Gay And Transgender Groups Over Adoption” HERE)

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Female Prisoner Claims She Was Raped By A ​Transgender Inmate And That The Prison Covered It Up

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A female prisoner at the Logan Correctional Center in Illinois is suing the prison for reportedly covering up her alleged sexual assault at the hands of a transgender inmate last year.

The woman, who is identified as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, alleged that an inmate who “identifies as female, but still has male genitalia” was moved into her housing unit last summer and immediately began to “express interest” in her, according to a report by WTTW-TV.

In the lawsuit, she recalled that she was “terrified of this inmate as the inmate was much bigger and stronger” and because she had heard that the inmate “had assaulted prior cellmates and had been convicted of murder.”

The woman then said she was raped by the inmate, but that after she reported the incident to authorities only a “sham investigation” ensued.

The woman alleged that she was told by an officer “that he did not believe her and he pressured Plaintiff to say there was no sexual assault.” She said she was “coerced” into saying the encounter was consensual and soon after filed a grievance with the Illinois Department of Corrections. (Read more from “Female Prisoner Claims She Was Raped By A ​Transgender Inmate And That The Prison Covered It Up” HERE)

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Transgender Reports Man to Police for His ‘Gender Critical’ Tweets – Here’s How the Judge Responded

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A British judge ruled Friday that a man who issued “gender critical” comments on Twitter is protected by free speech.

According to Reuters, a British judge issued the ruling after a transgender woman complained to authorities that a man on social media made what [he] called “brazen transphobic comments.”

Former police officer Harry Miller allegedly shared 31 “gender critical” remarks between November 2018 and January 2019. . .

The unnamed trans [“woman”] called authorities and filed a complaint. Upon investigation, authorities determined that Miller’s Twitter remarks were considered a “non-crime hate incident.” . . .

Judge Julian Knowles at London’s High Court said that Miller’s remarks were lawful and protected by free speech. (Read more from “Transgender Reports Man to Police for His ‘Gender Critical’ Tweets – Here’s How the Judge Responded” HERE)

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Biologically Male Runner to Compete in USA Women’s Olympic Trials

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A biologically male marathon runner who identifies as a transgender woman is set to compete in the USA Olympic trials later in February.

Megan Youngren “is set to make history on Feb. 29 as the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the U.S. Olympic marathon trials,” Sports Illustrated reported. Youngren qualified for the trials after a strong performance on Dec. 8, 2019 in the California International Marathon.

“People will try to put it down by saying, ‘That’s too easy because you’re trans.’ But what about the 500 other women who will qualify?” Youngren told the magazine. “There’s probably someone with the exact same story.” . . .

The International Olympic Committee requires transgender athletes in women’s sports to keep their testosterone levels below a certain threshold, but scientific research suggests that suppressing testosterone isn’t enough to neutralize biologically male athletes’ inherent physiological advantages. . .

June Eastwood, a biologically male runner at the University of Montana who identifies as transgender, was named the Big Sky Conference’s female athlete of the week in October 2019. Eastwood previously competed on the university’s men’s cross country team. (Read more from “Biologically Male Runner to Compete in USA Women’s Olympic Trials” HERE)

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