{"id":18966,"date":"2020-09-25T14:54:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T21:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18966"},"modified":"2020-09-25T14:45:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T21:45:37","slug":"us-senators-introduce-bill-to-prohibit-males-who-identify-as-female-from-competing-in-girls-school-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/us-senators-introduce-bill-to-prohibit-males-who-identify-as-female-from-competing-in-girls-school-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senators Introduce Bill to Prohibit Males Who Identify as Female From Competing in Girls\u2019 School Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Heather Clark<\/a> – September 24, 2020<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014<\/strong> Five U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would prohibit biological males who identify as female from competing in girls\u2019 school sports.<\/span><\/p>\n

Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, Mike Lee of Utah, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, James Lankford of Oklahoma and Tom Cotton of Arkansas presented the \u201cProtection of Women and Girls in Sports Act\u201d<\/a> on Tuesday, which amends Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to specifically note that the definition of \u201csex\u201d is based on the individual\u2019s \u201creproductive biology and genetics at the the time of birth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt shall be a violation \u2026 for\u00a0a recipient of federal funds who operates, sponsors, or\u00a0facilitates athletic programs or activities to permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program\u00a0or activity that is designated for women or girls,\u201d the bill reads.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Read it in full here.<\/a><\/p>\n

According to Loeffler, the measure would penalize schools that violate the law and could also threaten their funding altogether.<\/p>\n

She points to a case out of Connecticut<\/a> in which the Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) implemented a policy allowing students to compete in accordance with their stated \u201cgender identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two biological boys, who go by the names Andraya Yearwood and Terry Miller, were consequently permitted to join the girls track team at their school and compete as females \u2014 moving on to the New England regionals.<\/p>\n

One of the female competitors, Selina Soule, who attends Bloomfield High School, wasn\u2019t able to qualify for the 55-meter race at the regionals because Yearwood and Miller took two of the top spots. She came in eighth.<\/p>\n

She and her mother, along with fellow runners Chelsea Mitchell and Alanna Smith and their parents,\u00a0lodged a complaint<\/a>\u00a0last year with the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s Office of Civil Rights, which agreed to investigate.<\/p>\n

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