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The Maryland Freedom Caucus, a group of GOP delegates in the Maryland state legislature, made a social media post showing a sign that appeared to have been put up by fellow Democrats, dismissing concerns about trans athletes in women’s sports.
The Post claimed the sign was posted on Wednesday, which was National Women & Girls in Sports Day.
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The sign, which has a signature from the Maryland Legislative LGBTQ+ Caucus, was hung in the offices of Democratic state delegates Eric Ebersole and Nick Allen.
The sign makes the baseless point that “trans women have no competitive advantage,” in women’s sports. In 2021, British Journal of Sports Medicine published a study that said transgender women retain an advantage over biological women, even after a year of hormone therapy.
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Democrats who voted down a bill to protect trans athletes in sports. (Pakinomist)
The sign also went on to say, “anti-dignity policies put transgender youth at risk,” “banning transgender youth is illegal,” and “invasive enforcement creates fear.”
Pakinomist Digital has reached out to Ebersole, Allen and the Maryland Legislative LGBTQ+ Caucus for a response.
The post and apparent sign come a day before the Maryland state legislature is set to vote on the Fairness in Girls’ Sports Act.
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The bill would require “certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools and certain locker rooms to be expressly designated based on biological sex; to prohibit certain entities from taking certain adverse actions against a school for maintaining separate interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and team-sex athletic facilities for female gender or sport students or athletic or varsity students.”
So far, 27 states in the US have similar laws in place enforcing bans on trans athletes in girls’ sports.
