The Michigan House of the Representatives voted for a decision to urge the Michigan High School Athletic Association to follow President Donald Trump’s executive order and ban transnry athletes from competing in girls and women’s sports.
“To allow biological men to compete in women’s sports contrary to a federal executive order could put female athletes in Michigan at risk of injury, threatening the security and justice of competitions and undermining the intention of title IX,” the resolution via Detroit Free Press reads.
Six -sixteenth people voted for the resolution as opposed to 43 nays; Eight of Yays were Democrats who have been criticized by LGBTQ+ advocates.
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The outer of the state’s capital in Lansing. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
“The shift in how Democrats are placing in questions regarding transritels are worrying,” Equality Michigan CEO Erin Knott said on Thursday. “It’s time to act resolutely to take a fixed stand, and to make it clear, we will struggle to protect the LGBTQ+ community no matter what, and unfortunately we don’t see the same power we did even last year.”
“We all want sports to be fair and students athletes should be safe,” Knott added. “That’s why MHSAA already has rules on who can participate in different sports at different levels across a number of questions. They already have a process in place and are experts when it comes to sports in schools. They don’t need politicians in Lansing to override their expertise with a one-size-fit-alto carpet ban.”
Added Jerry Totten, who runs the party’s LGBT & Allied Caucus, “There are so many other questions that are more urgent, more, more alarming than transchildren playing sports. And I think we as voters are looking for legislators who will tackle these questions and not scaped marginalized society.”
“The Democratic Party chose a different way than what we would normally think they would,” said Jeffrey Pienela, president of Muskegon Pride, an LGBTQ+ lawyer organization.
“It’s surprising. It’s almost like, who has your back when none of the parties do?”
President Donald Trump recognizes former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines before signing No but in women’s sports order in the law of the eastern space of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
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A Democrat, rep. Emily Dievendorf, talked about why she had voted for the decision.
“I want you to think about what it means to be a child. Finding out who you are trying to find a place to hear. To learn confidence through the support of your peers and mentors … imagine now, instead being told by adults, by your own government, that you are the problem. That playing sports, making friends and being yourself is wrong. Society meant to support you instead.
“I know what it is to be a queer -child, and it’s lonely. I know what it is to be our non -binary legislature, and it’s isolating and dehumanizing. This decision is not about justice. It’s not about protecting women’s sports. This is not about security because there is no threat. There is no threat.”
Rep. However, Alaba’s Farhat, a Democrat who went against most of his party in the vote, offered an alternative.
“We want to make sure there is a fair environment … to compete in. And I just want to be honest, that’s where it comes from for me. People in my district, certainly, I think, agree with that feeling …” Rep. Alaba’s Farhat said. “I prefer we prioritize conversations about affordable prices around housing. I prefer these conversations to be at the forefront instead of decisions like this. But you know, again, for me, it’s a matter of justice and my district has very strong opinions about these things.”
President Donald Trump participated by female athletes signing “No men in women’s sports” executive order in the Eastern Room in the White House on February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC The executive order that Trump signed on national girls and women in sports day, forbid trans -tight women to compete in women’s sports and are the third order he has signed to (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The Department of Education has launched title IX studies against three states – California, Minnesota and Maine – not to comply with the order. The USDA stopped federal funding to Maine as a result that Trump threatened.
