Thu Apr 7, 2022 – 6:37 pm EDT
FRANKFORT, Kentucky (LifeSiteNews) – Kentucky Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear vetoed legislation Wednesday to keep gender-confused males out of sporting events designed specifically for females, though the measure is still likely to become law.
SB83 bars biological males from competing in girls’ and women’s athletic programs tied to both K-12 and collegiate education. It passed the state House 70-23 and the state Senate 26-9. Supporters of such legislation argue that indulging transgender athletes’ desire to compete as their “new gender” undermines the rational basis for having sex-specific athletics in the first place – the immutable physical differences between men and women – thereby depriving female athletes of recognition and professional or academic opportunities.
Beshear argued in his veto message that the legislation was unnecessary because the Kentucky High School Athletic Association’s (KHSAA’s) existing policy treats the issue with adequate nuance, allowing “sex-reassigned” student athletes to “compete in the reassigned gender” only if reassignment was undertaken before puberty, or if their post-puberty reassignment includes “surgical anatomical changes” and verifiable “hormonal therapy appropriate for the assigned sex” for a long enough time period to “minimize gender-related advantages.”
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