Fri Apr 1, 2022 – 10:32 am EDT
OKLAHOMA CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill Wednesday protecting student women’s sports in the state by outlawing male participation in the wake of “transgender” male athletes taking women’s leagues by storm.
In signing the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” Stitt guaranteed that “[a]thletic teams designated for ‘females,’ ‘women,’ or ‘girls’ shall not be open to students of the male sex,” according to paragraph 1 of the act.
The legislation offers protections for any “student who is deprived of an athletic opportunity or suffers any direct or indirect harm as a result of a violation of paragraph 1 of this subsection” by guaranteeing “cause of action for injunctive relief, damages and any other relief available permitted by law against the school.”
The new act also protects students from “retaliation or other adverse action by a school, school athletic association or intercollegiate association” should they report a violation of the legislation to a competent authority.
Describing the act as “common sense,” Gov. Stitt said that his aim “is very, very simple. We are protecting women’s sports,” the Daily Wire reported.
“When it comes to sports and
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