Georgia House recently adopted the “Riley Gaines Act”, aiming to ban transnry athletes from competing against biological girls and women.
The bill is named after Gaines, the host of “Gaines for Girls” podcast at Outkick, who has been a master of keeping biological men out of girls and women’s sports ever since the competition against Lia Thomas, a trans swimmer who won an NCAA title three years ago.
Representatives voted 102-54 for House Bill 267 on Thursday.
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While all 54 No. came from Democrats, three of them voted to pass; Null Republicans voted no, and of the 10 who did not vote were nine Democrats.
The measure is moving to the Senate, which has passed its own separate legislation.
“Female athletes deserve fair competition, and that means the chance of preserving women’s divisions separate from men’s categories,” Republican Rep said. Josh Bonner from Fayetteville, the bill’s sponsor.
Riley Gaines, Center, Movements, while talking to a panel during a roundtable event calling to protect women’s sports, held at Captain’s Club Golf & Event Center in Grand Blanc on Monday 5 August 2024. (Ryan Garza / USA Today Network)
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Georgia’s High School Athletic Association is currently prohibiting transient students from participating in sports based on their gender identity; 25 other states have laws that limit sports participation from trans athletes.
The Democratic Rep. Karla Drenner from Avondale Estates said the bill is “calculated, dangerous, deeply discriminatory piece of legislation that goes far beyond the athletics area.”
“Let’s call this deletion of transcend Georgians -action today,” said Drenter, the first open LGBTQ+ member of the legislature when she was elected in 2000.
Several states, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order, have reportedly continued to allow transking athletes to compete against biological women; The Department of Education has launched title IX studies of California, Minnesota and Maine to do so.
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Trump threatened Maine Governor Janet Mills with a lack of federal funding if the state continued to ignore Trump’s order.
