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2022-04-26 19:09:59 UTC
The law, which is set to take effect July 1, will pull funding from
Tennessee schools that fail to verify a student-athletes sex assigned at
birth.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/3463878-tennessee-
governor-signs-law-adding-penalties-to-transgender-athlete-ban/
Story at a glance
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) has signed into law a measure adding harsh
penalties to an existing law barring transgender athletes from competing
on school sports teams that match their gender identity.
Under the law, funding will be withheld from school districts that refuse
or fail to verify the gender listed on a student-athletes original
birth certificate.
The state legislature is pursuing additional legislation targeting the
states transgender and nonbinary youth, including a measure that would
allow public school teachers to ignore a students preferred personal
pronouns if those pronouns are inconsistent with the students sex
assigned at birth.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) has quietly enacted another measure to prevent
transgender athletes from competing on school sports teams consistent with
their gender identity, adding harsher penalties to the states existing
transgender athlete ban.
Lee late last week without comment signed into law House Bill 1895, which
will pull funding from state schools that allow transgender students to
play on sports teams aligning with their gender identity, doubling down on
an existing Tennessee law which already bars transgender athletes from
gender-segregated sports teams inconsistent with their sex assigned at
birth.
The new measure, which is set to take effect July 1, requires Tennessees
education commissioner to withhold a portion of the state education
finance funds from local school districts that fail or refuse to
determine a student-athletes gender using the students original birth
certificate.
Lee last year signed into law legislation requiring students beyond the
fourth grade to provide legal documentation demonstrating their sex
assigned at birth to participate in school sports. That law is still in
effect despite a pending lawsuit challenging its constitutionality. A
trial has been tentatively set for March of next year, The Associated
Press reported.
Lee after signing the measure into law last year tweeted that the action
was done to preserve womens athletics and ensure fair competition.
Similar arguments have been made by other conservative lawmakers and state
officials in enacting related legislation, asserting that transgender
female athletes in particular have a material competitive advantage over
cisgender women and girls.
In a statement to the Associated Press, Henry Seaton, a transgender
justice advocate at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of
Tennessee, said measures like these send a harmful message to transgender
youth and set dangerous precedents. Tennessee lawmakers are already
pushing to pass additional legislation barring transgender women from
participating in school athletics through college.
Telling transgender students that they cant participate as who they
really are amounts to excluding them from sports entirely depriving them
of opportunities available to their peers and sending the message that
they are not worthy of a full life, Seaton said.
In a statement on Monday, Chris Sanders, the executive director of the
Tennessee Equality Project, said the new measure was built on
misinformation meant to stigmatize transgender and nonbinary people.
It is hard to imagine a worse combinationcutting school funds for not
discriminating, he said. It is past time for Tennessee to pursue
policies that create a sense of belonging for trans and nonbinary students
in our schools.
Lawmakers in Tennessee this week also sent House Bill 2633 to the
governors desk. If that measure is signed into law, public school
teachers in Tennessee will be permitted to ignore a students preferred
personal pronouns if those pronouns do not align with their sex assigned
at birth.
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Tennessee schools that fail to verify a student-athletes sex assigned at
birth.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/3463878-tennessee-
governor-signs-law-adding-penalties-to-transgender-athlete-ban/
Story at a glance
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) has signed into law a measure adding harsh
penalties to an existing law barring transgender athletes from competing
on school sports teams that match their gender identity.
Under the law, funding will be withheld from school districts that refuse
or fail to verify the gender listed on a student-athletes original
birth certificate.
The state legislature is pursuing additional legislation targeting the
states transgender and nonbinary youth, including a measure that would
allow public school teachers to ignore a students preferred personal
pronouns if those pronouns are inconsistent with the students sex
assigned at birth.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) has quietly enacted another measure to prevent
transgender athletes from competing on school sports teams consistent with
their gender identity, adding harsher penalties to the states existing
transgender athlete ban.
Lee late last week without comment signed into law House Bill 1895, which
will pull funding from state schools that allow transgender students to
play on sports teams aligning with their gender identity, doubling down on
an existing Tennessee law which already bars transgender athletes from
gender-segregated sports teams inconsistent with their sex assigned at
birth.
The new measure, which is set to take effect July 1, requires Tennessees
education commissioner to withhold a portion of the state education
finance funds from local school districts that fail or refuse to
determine a student-athletes gender using the students original birth
certificate.
Lee last year signed into law legislation requiring students beyond the
fourth grade to provide legal documentation demonstrating their sex
assigned at birth to participate in school sports. That law is still in
effect despite a pending lawsuit challenging its constitutionality. A
trial has been tentatively set for March of next year, The Associated
Press reported.
Lee after signing the measure into law last year tweeted that the action
was done to preserve womens athletics and ensure fair competition.
Similar arguments have been made by other conservative lawmakers and state
officials in enacting related legislation, asserting that transgender
female athletes in particular have a material competitive advantage over
cisgender women and girls.
In a statement to the Associated Press, Henry Seaton, a transgender
justice advocate at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of
Tennessee, said measures like these send a harmful message to transgender
youth and set dangerous precedents. Tennessee lawmakers are already
pushing to pass additional legislation barring transgender women from
participating in school athletics through college.
Telling transgender students that they cant participate as who they
really are amounts to excluding them from sports entirely depriving them
of opportunities available to their peers and sending the message that
they are not worthy of a full life, Seaton said.
In a statement on Monday, Chris Sanders, the executive director of the
Tennessee Equality Project, said the new measure was built on
misinformation meant to stigmatize transgender and nonbinary people.
It is hard to imagine a worse combinationcutting school funds for not
discriminating, he said. It is past time for Tennessee to pursue
policies that create a sense of belonging for trans and nonbinary students
in our schools.
Lawmakers in Tennessee this week also sent House Bill 2633 to the
governors desk. If that measure is signed into law, public school
teachers in Tennessee will be permitted to ignore a students preferred
personal pronouns if those pronouns do not align with their sex assigned
at birth.
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: ***@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.