The Georgia House recently adopted the “Riley Gaines Act”, which aims to prohibit transgender athletes from competing with biological girls and women.
The bill is called Gaines, the host of the Podcast “Gaines for Girls” on Outkick, who is a champion to keep organic men outside of female and female sports since his competition against Lia Thomas, a trans swimmer who won a title of NCAA three years ago.
The representatives voted Thursday 102-54 for the bill of Chamber 267.
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Riley Gaines defended equity in female sports. (XX-Syntics)
While the No. 54 came from democrats, three of them voted to pass; Zero republicans voted no, and out of the 10 who did not vote, nine were democrats.
The measure goes to the Senate, which adopted its own distinct legislation.
“Female athletes deserve a fair competition and this means the possibility of maintaining the distinct female divisions of the male categories,” said republican representative Josh Bonner of Fayetteville, the sponsor of the bill.
Riley Gaines, center, gestures while speaking with a panel during a round table calling to protect female sports organized at the Captain’s Club Golf & Event Center in Grand Blanc on Monday, August 5, 2024. (Ryan Garza / USA Today Network)
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The sports association of the Georgia high school currently prohibits transgender students from participating in sports according to their gender identity; 25 Other states have laws restricting sports participation by trans athletes.
Democratic representative Karla Drenner by Avondale Estates said that the bill is “calculated, dangerous and deeply discriminatory, which goes far beyond the field of athletics”.
“Let us call this the erasure of transgender Georgians Act today,” said Drenner, who was the first member openly LGBTQ + of the Legislative Assembly when she was elected in 2000.
Several states, despite the executive decree of President Donald Trump, would have continued to allow transgender athletes to compete with biological women; The Ministry of Education has launched investigations into the title IX on California, Minnesota and Maine for that.
Riley Gaines defended equity in female sports. (XX-Syntics)
Trump threatened Maine Janet Mills governor with a lack of federal funding if the state continued to ignore Trump’s order.
