Republican South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed legislation to ban biological males from participating in women's sports.
Legislators introduced H4608 earlier this year, which requires students to participate in sports that match their biological sex on their birth certificate (unless the student is enrolled in a school that does not have a designated sport for women team).
The move makes South Carolina the 16th state to specifically ban biological males from participating in women's sports, according to a poll by American Principles Project (APP) , Texas, South Dakota, Iowa, Oklahoma, Arizona, Utah, and Kentucky have also enacted such laws.
The research states that
the majority of Americans do not support trans surgery or puberty blockers for minors.
“This view is shared by the vast majority of Americans, as shown in our latest polling of battleground states. Only biology matters, and the manipulations of the woke ideologues cannot change that."
The World Swimming Coaches Association said this week that it does not support the presence of biological males in women's competitive sports. According to the organization
allowing transgender athletes to compete destroys competitive equality in the sport.
In March Lia Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I title after taking first in the women's 500-meter freestyle. Some of Thomas' teammates and competitors complained publicly and privately that it was not fair for them to have to compete against the 190cm biological male.
The organization is committed to finding a way to allow transgender swimmers to compete, possibly by creating a "trans division . But he insisted that biological men could not compete against women.
Source: 888.hu
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