Both the North Carolina state House and Senate have passed separate bills that would prevent biological male athletes from competing in sports designated for females. The bills raced through both chambers.
House Bill 574, the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, passed the House Judiciary Committee in the morning of Wednesday, April 19; passing the House Rules Committee shortly after that, and then passing the third reading in the House in the afternoon.
The Fairness in Women’s Sport Act passed the House on a veto proof 73-to-39 vote with three Democrats joining the Republicans in support of the bill.
The state Senate passed Senate Bill 631, the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, a similar but not identical bill on Thursday, April 20, by a veto proof 29-to-18 vote. The bill was co-sponsored by every Senate Republican. One difference in the two bills is that the House bill includes a ban on biological males competing in women’s sports on college teams and the Senate bill only applies to middle school and high school teams.
A press release from the Senate Republicans describes the bill as “a commonsense solution to the unfair advantage gained when biological males compete in female sports.”
Primary bill sponsor Sen. Vickie Sawyer (R-Iredell) said, “At the heart of all sports is competition, and the last thing we want is to take that away from our female athletes. We’ve made far too much progress to go backward and threaten the loss of a scholarship or state championship.”
Because the two bills are different, the state House and Senate will have to reach agreement on a final bill before it can be passed and sent to Gov. Roy Cooper.
The Republicans now have veto-proof majorities in both the state House and Senate. Cooper has three choices when the bill comes to his desk: He can sign it into law; he can veto it and send it back to the legislature where it would have to pass by a three-fifths majority to override the veto; or Cooper can do nothing and the bill would become law without his signature after 10 days.
Neither bill would prevent transgender athletes from competing on co-ed athletic teams or teams that correspond with their biological sex at birth.
Finally, some common sense vs BS from the radical left.
Good. It’s not fair for the most dedicated and talented women athletes to have all their work trashed because some hairy creep declares that he’s a woman.
BRAVO!!! Go ahead and pass the House version, which includes college sports!
WOMEN AND GIRLS SHOULD NOT HAVE TO COMPETE AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MEN BECAUSE OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS! IT’S A TRAVESTY!
As someone who stands up for the LFGTQ community on this site on a regular basis, this is a subject that is no way as clear cut as others. I can’t disagree that in many examples, allowing Transexual women to compete in women’s sports doesn’t make sense. But in some cases it does make sense. Really should be a case-by-case basis given how rarely it is an issue. Bit overkill to make a law about it. But republicans seem to have a ‘thing’ for LGBTQ people these days.
Republicans have a ‘thing’ for LGBTQ123X people these days because democrats are pushing pedos on kids and labelling parents as domestic terrorists. It’s called divide and conquer. Not gonna work, but they’ll keep trying.
Well said Mr Mike, well said
Case by case will not work. There are only two sexes, male and female. There is nothing in between. A person is born a male or a female. To think otherwise is delusional. If you want to believe the unbelievable, go ahead. However, do not push this delusion on others. A male born a male cannot change his sex. Same with female. It is shameful to promulgate such an idea.
You are confusing sex and gender. Read up on the different and then rejoin the conversation.
Well you certainly have a fixation about queers, don’t you? You drag them and their predilections into every discussion. Are you repressed, Lying Chris?
You still longing down peoples pants to determine who is a man or a woman?
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C’mon Chris, just come out. It’s not a crime to be gay. You can call yourself Gay Chris!
Chris, quick question. Very simple. Which gender can have children, male/men or female/women? I look forward to your response…
You’re confusing mental illness with science. Follow the science!
Gender doesn’t define who can have children. But people who are born as the female sex can have children. Gender and sex have different meanings. For example:
Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people. For example, there are people born as the male sex who identify as the female gender. They often modify their appearance to meet social norms of a typical female. Austin wants to look down their pants to tell them which bathroom to use. I am ok if they use whatever makes them comfortable.
Lying Chris is lying again, putting words in my mouth and trying to smear me as some kind of creep, when he is actually the creep with a fixation on sexual deviancy.
A woman is an adult human being with two X Chromosomes.
A man is an adult human being with an X chromosome and a Y chromosome.
That’s the science.
Those are the only possibilities, which is why there are only two sexes.
Beware of interacting with this guy. He will lie and dissemble and engage in all kinds of sophistry, all so he can score points in his little mind, and make up for his own inadequacies.
He’s an odious little man with some kind of personality disorder.
“…case-by-case basis…”? Seriously? Seriously? Is that anything like kinda being pregnant?
I thought I had heard it all, but just when you think they’ve hit rock bottom somebody sends for the TNT.
Open your ears and you can hear and learn a great deal. Join the woke crowd and stop being asleep to the diverse society that surrounds you.
It’s not that the GOP has thing for the alphabet community it’s that the alphabet community pushes their woke agenda on everyone and pushing gender dysphoria on adolescents and gay pornography on little kids. It’s like the lunatics are running the asylum. What an adult does with their body is their business. What consenting adults do behind closed doors is their business but when you start PUSHING that deviant behavior as acceptable to me or my kids that’s when it becomes an issue. Remember, you pushed it on me and mine not the other way around. You folks don’t like religion and that’s okay. More room for me in heaven. Like Ben Franklin said, mind your business!
Chris, I will attempt to be brief. A person’s sex is real and unchangeable. The sex of a child has already been determined by nature, if you will, at the time of birth. No matter how many surgeries a person undergoes, their sex remains the same. No matter how many injections, their sex remains the same. The “female swimmer” in the news is a male, period. He can mutilate himself in anyway he decides but he will not change the fact he is a male and will be for the rest of his life. Therefore, the “female swimmer” should not be competing as a female because he is not.
Gender, on the other hand, is not a person’s sex but rather what a person feels in their brain at a given time. Unlike sex, gender is changeable. Since gender is changeable and a personal choice, the government nor society has the right or authority to force changes in our language and society to accommodate mutable changes based on choice. Adults should have a choice to be transgender, both genders or whatever unmolested by society. However, the group has been emboldened by certain politicians to act out. It is so sad that they appear not to understand that they are being used by those very politicians as well as hospitals and doctors for their own political and financial gain.
Laws should be in place to protect children. As any good parent knows, children operate on whims. Their minds are not sufficiently developed to understand the consequences of decisions. That is what parents are for.
Schools should stay out of all issues except reading, writing, arithmetic, history and science. Do not teach those subjects based on current theories such as critical race. If a child wants to talk about what (s)he has heard in the news about gender, send the child to the school nurse, not a teacher, who should already be trained to handle a child’s body questions.
Sex and gender are not the same thing and should not be used as if they are.