A legislator in Washington compared the legislation aimed at Prohibit transgender athletes Sports of girls and female in the state to racial segregation in the United States, arguing that those of the aisle “make a lot of the same arguments today”.
Washington democratic state Rep. Kristine Reeves Thursday morning, during an executive session of the Chamber’s Education Committee, where the members of the Committee presented SB 5123, a bill which aimed to extend the protections for students, in particular sex expression and gender identity.
File – State representative, Kristine Reeves, Democrat of Washington, speaks during a round table for firearms in Seattle, Washington, Friday, September 27, 2019. (Chona Kasinger / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“I remember a moment in the history of our country not so long ago … where people and my grandfather were informed that they could not participate in sports activities because he was a black man,” said Reeves following an amendment offered to The bill.
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“I remember a moment in the history of our country, Mrs. Chaise, where people like my grandfather and my great-great-grandfather were not allowed to participate in processes and places in our society because of the color of their skin because people for years-for generations-had told our society that blacks were less than Humans, that blacks were not the ability of the brain Complete with white Americans. “
Reeves said that, similar to the supplied scientific studies that have argued an unfair physical advantage for transmian sports athletes, people “also generated sciences to force people to believe in the argument that my father, my grandfather, my grandmother, my great-grandparents were less than in our society”.
“We repeat the story, the lecturer of Madame, in this debate and it is very, very scary for me that we are doing a lot of the same arguments today about this subset of our population that my grandfather, my grandmother and my grandparents had to be subjected for years, being informed that they were less than those, that they did not deserve the same rights as the color of their skin.”
Republican legislators During the Committee meeting did not agree with the complaint of Reeves, including its remarks according to which “we have the capacity to evolve”.
President Donald Trump, joined by female athletes, signs the executive decree “No Men in Women’s Sports” in the East Room of the White House on February 5, 2025, in Washington, DC (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)
The Californian legislator warns the Democrats from the consequences so as not to protect the sports of girls against trans athletes
“This particular amendment is focused on sports participation and something that does not change is bone density, pulmonary capacity and man’s ability compared to a woman,” said representative Michael Keaton. “There have already been too many stories this year of injured women, or women who work all their lives to reach a goal and to succeed in something, devote their life to it, then a man changes categories and withdraw all this.”
The representative Travis Couture echoes this feeling, adding that the amendment of the bill “does not concern black eyes in the history of our racial relationships”.
“I do not consider it evolving, in fact,” he added. “I do not think that it is a fallacious argument on my part or my side to say that our opinion is that we really develop from an era before the title IX, a period before women have rights in this country, an era before girls can really compete in sports with other girls without having to risk being injured or to have scholastic opportunities or other opportunities.”
“We go back in history, not forward.”
President Donald Trump has signed a decree last month which required that the entities that receive federal funding aligning on title IX, that the Trump administration changed last month to recognize the protections on the basis of biological sex – canceling the rewriting of former President Joe Biden in 2024.
US President Donald Trump responds to a journalist at a press conference in the White House Roosevelt room on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC (Photo of Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)
The Trump administration has concluded several states which openly refused to comply, which prompted federal funding to be drawn. More particularly, the administration has interrupted $ 175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania After the Ministry of Education has launched a university investigation for potential title IX violations.
The financing break was not the direct result of the survey, which means that the Ivy League school could bear to lose more in federal funding.
At the state level, Maine officials were the most frank on the refusal to comply with the federal law, leading to a back and forth between the state and the Trump administration.
