Tue Oct 26, 2021 – 3:04 pm EDT
AUSTIN (LifeSiteNews) — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday signed a law requiring participation in student athletic competition to be defined by sex rather than “gender identity.”
House Bill 25 requires interscholastic athletic teams “sponsored or authorized by a school district or open-enrollment charter school” to only allow students to compete in sex-specific competitions if alignment with the biological sex “correctly stated” on a student’s birth certificate (or another government record, if a birth certificate is “unobtainable”).
The only exception is that female students may be allowed to participate in male competitions “if a corresponding interscholastic athletic competition designated for female students is not offered or available.”
The Texas Tribune reports that Republican state Rep. Valoree Swanson, the bill’s author, said she is “overjoyed” that Abbott signed HB 25. “It’s so very, very important that we protect everything that women have gained in the last 50 years,” she said.
LGBT activists argue that individuals suffering from gender dysphoria should be recognized as their desired sex rather than their real sex in virtually all aspects of society, including sex-segregated activities. Conservatives argue that indulging transgender athletes in this
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