Bill would limit girls’ sports to biological females
By ERIC SEIVERLING
eseiverling@yourmvi.com
Local lawmakers expressed their opinion this week about an executive order issued in January by President Joe Biden that requires biological males be permitted to compete on women’s sports teams in high school and college.
If courts uphold the order, any school that receives federal funding, including nearly every public high school, must either allow biological boys who self-identify as girls to participate on girls’ sports teams or face administrative action from the Department of Education.
In response to Biden’s executive order, a group of female Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers on Monday unveiled a bill they say is intended to protect biological girls and women who take part in school sports from competing against athletes who were born male.
The five Republican women — state Reps. Valerie Gaydos of Allegheny County, Barbara Gleim of Cumberland County, Stephanie Borowicz of Clinton County, Dawn Keefer of York County and Martina White of Philadelphia — say athletes born male have advantages over those born female.
They claim Biden’s executive order violates the federal Title IX legislation passed in 1972 that requires girls and boys to be given equal opportunities in sports.
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