Legislation barring trans athletes from women's sports introduced in Ohio House
A bill to keep trans athletes from participating in women’s sports in college and youth athletics was introduced in the Ohio House on Wednesday.
State Rep. Jena Powell’s House Bill 6 came to the House Higher Education Committee, where Powell spent her testimony emphasizing the biological differences between males and females, and decrying a “biological male” ending up with a gold medal or championship in a women’s sport.
“I am passionate about this issue because we cannot allow girls’ dreams of being a gold medal athlete to be crushed by biological males stealing their opportunities,” Powell told the committee.
The bill requires separate single-sex athletic teams and allows athletes to file a civil lawsuit “if the participant is deprived of an athletic opportunity or suffers harm as a result of a violation of the bill’s single-sex participation requirements or if the participant is subject to retaliation for reporting such a violation,” according to an analysis by the Legislative Service Commission.
Democrats on the committee tried to pin down the amount of athletes the bill might impact, which is low according to the Ohio High School Athletic Association, and they pressed Powell on whether she believed trans women existed.
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.... mates and their opponents did not have any problems with her playing. This is just assholes who
want to be mean to LGBT people.
BTW in OH today the former speaker of the Ohio House was just found guilty of taking a $60 million
bribe.
State Rep. Jena Powell’s House is a Christian too.