Ayytaly wrote:Kowani wrote:North Dakota has entered the frayA hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, March 16, dealt with House Bill 1298, which would prevent athletes under age 18 from participating in sports under any sex other than the one listed on their birth certificate.
It would also ban publicly owned facilities from hosting events in which transgender athletes might participate.
However, prior to the hearing, bill sponsor Rep. Ben Koppelman, (R), offered up amendments that would permit a facility to be rented or leased for such events and allow sponsorship of them by local destination marketing organizations, like the Fargo-Moorhead Convention and Visitors Bureau.
The committee took no action on the bill before adjourning after two hours of testimony.
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In their support of the bill, several invoked Title IX, the federal civil rights law passed in 1972 prohibiting sex-based discrimination in any school or other education program that receives federal money.
Koppelman said if the bill doesn’t pass, opportunities for women will be greatly reduced, as society tries to replace biological sex references with the social construct of self-identification.
“We will, in essence, be allowing the panels of the glass ceiling to be reconstructed and installed over the heads of our women in the name of feelings, rather than science,” Koppelman said.
Rep. Kathy Skroch, (R), said the bill is about keeping a level playing field for girls.
Her youngest daughter got a free ride in college by competing in track, she said.
“If she competed against boys, she would have never gotten a scholarship because of the biological difference,” Skroch said.
Rep. Scott Louser, (R), said the debate is happening because an “ultra minority” of people have “demanded to be accommodated.”
When others try to put in place practical solutions, he said, they’re criticized as being out of touch, insensitive, bigoted, homophobic or even racist.
“That’s something society is just falling back on now,” Louser said.
Beth Stelzer, a Minnesota powerlifter and founder of the nonpartisan coalition Save Women’s Sports, said male participation in female sports is a growing problem across the world.
“We should not wait idly until a female in North Dakota is seriously injured or until all of their records are gone, to do something,” Stelzer said.
So much for March being International Women's Month.
Legit question to those who now identify as female: Do you believe native women have a rational basis to feel that their struggle to succeed in a physical field historically dominated exclusively by men is being hindered and encroached by trans athletes and those pushing for the abolition of biological sex classification in favor of gender identity?
(Native means born, btw. Not in indigenous context at all.)
You mean natal, not native, but what you probably should say is cis, just so you know.
And also, that's a bit of a loaded question. But to answer it, no, sexual dimorphism is not that big in mammals especially in humans and frankly, coed sports can be a thing, if you must create control groups, put it to something like weight classes.
But frankly, this is not about 'fairness in sports' it never was, it's about slowly but surely eroding trans people out from the public sphere.