All posts tagged "Youthsports"

Transgender girls in Utah will be allowed to play on girls’ sports teams when classes start this fall after a judge issued an order blocking the enforcement of a controversial statewide trans youth sports ban. HB 11, which barred all transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams, passed both chambers of the Utah legislature in the last hours of the 2022 legislative session. It was vetoed by the state’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, in late March, but his veto was later overruled by the Republican-led legislature. In May, the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah, the National Cent......

ATLANTA — The Georgia Senate approved legislation Thursday to require students to participate in high school sports according to the sex that appears on their birth certificate. The Senate backed the measure on a party-line vote of 32-22, with Republicans voting in favor of the bill. Similar bills have been proposed in previous years, but this is the first time such a measure has had a vote by a full chamber. State Sen. Marty Harbin, a Republican, said the bill will create fairness for girls who play sports in Georgia schools. “It is our responsibility as legislators and as adults with common ......

Boys will be boys. And, according to court documents, girls should be Girl Scouts. The Girl Scouts of the United States of America, in a pointed Manhattan Federal Court filing, accused the Boy Scouts of America of wrongfully crossing the gender line by poaching potential female members from their organization over the past two years. “As a result of Boy Scouts’ infringement, parents have mistakenly enrolled their daughters in Boy Scouts thinking it was Girl Scouts,” the 108-year-old group charged in a Christmas Eve court filing. “According to the Boy Scouts, blame for the rampant marketplace c......