{"id":188859,"date":"2019-05-25T14:40:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T14:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188859"},"modified":"2019-05-27T06:05:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T06:05:35","slug":"american-schools-could-be-forced-to-let-males-join-girls-sports-teams-under-new-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188859","title":{"rendered":"American Schools Could Be Forced to Let Males Join Girls’ Sports Teams Under New Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT \u2013 May 21, 2019<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has passed a bill that will force schools to allow biological males who identify as females to compete on women\u2019s sports teams. What could go wrong?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis radical bill is going to totally eliminate women\u2019s and girls\u2019 sports<\/em>,\u201d Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Arizona) warned in a Daily Signal\u00a0op-ed<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, pointing out that the Equality Act, which passed the House 236-173 on Friday, would require not just schools but churches, nonprofits, and other institutions to allow biological males into women-only spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms, \u201ceven without any type of medical diagnosis or psychological diagnosis<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Equality Act enshrines \u201csexual orientation and gender identity<\/em>\u201d as a protected characteristic under the federal Civil Rights Act, which prohibits institutional discrimination \u2013 a measure that sounds uncontroversial enough, until its implications are fully digested.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis bill hijacks the Civil Rights Act of 1964, erasing decades of progress for women across this country<\/em>,\u201d Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri) declared in a press conference held Thursday, a last-ditch effort to derail what she termed the \u201cInequality Act<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rep. Greg Steube (R-Florida) attempted to include an amendment to preserve Title IX protections, which require schools to provide separate athletic programs for women, but it was shot down by Democrats, all but one of whom embraced the bill as-is. Even Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Illinois), the one holdout, was ultimately browbeaten into expressing his support following pressure from activists, and eight Republicans crossed party lines to vote in favor.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe LGBT community has waited nearly 250 years<\/em>\u201d for a law like this, gushed\u00a0Rep. Dan Cicilline (D-Rhode Island), urging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to take up the measure as soon as possible \u2013 though it\u2019s unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled Senate, and President Donald Trump reportedly opposes it. Still, the bill\u2019s defenders insisted female athletes had nothing to fear from the legislation, which would protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in housing, education, employment, and other areas.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMany states have sexual-orientation and gender-identity non-discrimination laws, and all of them still have women\u2019s sports<\/em>,\u201d Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-New York) insisted, dismissing transgender athletes\u2019 \u201ccompetitive advantages<\/em>\u201d during a hearing last month, perhaps unaware that Connecticut, one of those states, awarded both first-place and runner-up in its most recent high school women\u2019s 55-meter dash competition to biological males in the process of transitioning to female.<\/span><\/p>\n

A trio of female ex-athletes including tennis star Martina Navratilova warned last month in a Washington Post op-ed that the bill would decimate women\u2019s sports, dismissing the claims of those who believe \u201cgirls can compete and win against boys<\/em>\u201d as \u201csimply a denial of science<\/em>.\u201d Despite her years of LGBT advocacy, Navratilova was eviscerated last year after she said men who \u201cproclaim themselves female<\/em>\u201d should not be able to compete against women.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New bill will allow biological males into women-only spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms, \u201cwithout any type of medical or psychological diagnosis.\u201d What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188861,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188859\/revisions\/188861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}