The Minnesota House failed to spend the “preserving the girls from the sport” of the weeks after the executive order of President Donald Trump aimed at banning organic men to participate in female and girls sports.
HF12 needed 68 votes to the Chamber for adoption, but the bill failed with 67 affirmative votes out of 66 negative votes.
The law said that “only students can participate in a sports team or a sport of elementary or secondary level that a teaching establishment has limited to women and girls”.
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A person signals a flag of transgender pride during popular walking and rallying to Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, United States, January 18, 2025. (Nathan Morris / Nurphoto via Getty Images)
“Woman means a woman as biologically determined by genetics and defined in relation to the reproductive system of an individual,” said the bill.
A gathering of supporters and adversaries was seen in the Capitol, while they were waiting for the final vote.
The Maison du Minnesota had an “emotional discussion” before the bill was ultimately voted, and the representative of the republican state Peggy Scott, who sponsored the act, was one of those who spoke.
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“We cannot allow our daughters to be vulnerable to lose their place in the team, to be on the podium or to hurt by a teammate or a male competitor,” she said. “It’s not sure and it’s not just for our daughters.”
“We have women and girls around the world who are so afraid of competing with biological men that they abandon sport,” added the representative of the republican state Marion Rarick in support of the bill, referring to a United Nations report in 2024 on violence against women and girls.
However, opponents of the bill underlined trans discrimination in their arguments.
“All children deserve to play,” said the representative of the Democratic State, Brion Curran, president of Minnesota Queer legislators. “We will not be complacent with this hateful and dangerous anti-Trans rhetoric.”
President Donald Trump signed the executive of the female sports manager “without men” on February 5, 2025. (AP / Imagn)
The representative of the democratic state LiiH Kozlowski added that the law was “a bill to intimidate trans girls and non -binary children”.
While this stormy debate took place, the Senate voted on a bill on Monday prohibiting trans athletes from participating in female sports. The bill did not obtain the 60 votes necessary to pass, which means that at least seven democrats did not vote yes.
Trump’s executive decree last month ordered the education department to inform school systems, as well as colleges, that forcing girls and women to compete with transgender women is a violation of title IX.
After signing the order, the NCAA revised its own Policy on Trans athletes in female sports, although the revision was considered controversial by some.
Despite the decree, the Minnesota State High School League has announced that it would continue to let the trans athletes participate in the sports of girls, arguing that the Minnesota human rights law and their state constitution deem them eligible.
The president of the Melissa Hortman room (Brooklyn Park-36b) runs a session of the minnesota state legislator in Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. (Getty Images)
The American prosecutor General Pam Bondi, however, wrote a letter at the end of last month, warning the consequences of not having succeeded in “preserving the girls of the sport”.
“The civil rights office of the Ministry of Education began an investigation into title IX on the Minnesota State High School League,” said Bondi’s letter. “If the investigation of the Ministry of Education shows that the relevant entities of Minnesota indeed refuse to girls an equal chance to participate in sporting and sporting events by forcing them to compete with boys, the Ministry of Justice is ready to take all appropriate measures to enforce federal law.”
The Democratic representative of the State Leigh Finke said that a trans translsible athlete problem in the United States does not exist.
“Minnesota has been inclusive for 10 years. We have had no problem,” said Finke. “But we do this for political reasons. And when you lie on a community long enough, people will believe it.”
The Democrats of the Minnesota Chamber elected the bill.
The representative of the republican state Peggy Bennett saw it entirely differently.
“This bill concerns equity, security and preservation of girls sports in Minnesota.”
If the bill was to be adopted in the House on Monday, it would still not have been signed by Governor Tim Walz, an ardent defender of the rights of the transgender people who were to oppose his veto.
