Mississippi governor signs bill limiting transgender athletes

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Source: Associated Press, via the Jackson Courier Ledger

Politics

Mississippi governor signs bill limiting transgender athletes

Associated Press
Published 9:55 a.m. CT Mar. 11, 2021 | Updated 10:50 a.m. CT Mar. 11, 2021

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill Thursday to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls or women’s sports teams.

Mississippi is the first state this year to enact such a ban, after a federal court blocked an Idaho law last year. Mississippi’s Senate Bill 2536 is set to become law July 1, although a legal challenge is possible.

More than 20 states are proposing restrictions on athletics or gender-confirming health care for transgender minors this year. Conservative lawmakers are responding to an executive order by Democratic President Joe Biden that bans discrimination based on gender identity in school sports and elsewhere. Biden signed it Jan. 20, the day he took office.

“But for the fact that President Biden as one of his first initiatives sat down and signed an executive order — which, in my opinion, encourages transgenderism amongst our young people — but for that fact, we wouldn't be here today,” Reeves said during a ceremony in the Mississippi Capitol, where he was joined by legislators who supported the bill.

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What a depressing time to be alive (and trans).

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[RKP5637]

1. They'll do anything to be injurious to transgenders. And others for other things too. n/t

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. This bit in the article shows you what this is really about ... more Rightist culture-war bullshit

"Republican legislators who pushed the bill gave no evidence of any transgender athletes competing in Mississippi schools or universities."

A solution in search of a problem indeed.

Just Rightist's doing the virtue-signaling thing they so love to do.

[moose65]

3. Why are they so obsessed with this?

It used to be that they tripped all over themselves to pass those "bathroom bills" because they were afraid of the hordes of men who would "pretend" to be women just so they could use women's restrooms. Never mind that that pretty much never happened, and if men wanted to bust into ladies' rooms they could, since the doors aren't locked.

Now they have moved on to these girls' sports bills, again telling us that all boys would have to do is pretend to be a girl and they'd win the gold medal or whatever it is that you get for winning. Again, it doesn't happen!

It's funny that they didn't seem to give a shit about trans men in the boys' locker room, or they don't care about trans men playing men's sports.

While people continue to die of Covid-19, THIS is what they care about.