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COMMENTARY: The court will rule whether states have the authority to safeguard female athletes or whether such protections must be subject to individualized assessments and constitutional protections.
Idaho and West Virginia both have laws that ban transgender athletes from competing on sports teams at public schools and universities that do not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. There are 25 other states that have such laws.
“The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex,” said Patrick Stewart Hodge, deputy president of the Supreme Court of the U.K., reading the decision.
In a statement released by the bishops’ conference, Bishop Robert Barron and Bishop David O’Connell called the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act ‘commonsense legislation that would ensure fairness for female athletes.’
According to a news release, the legislation would restore the legal right to reserve girls’ and women’s sports and scholarships for biological girls and women.
The point of the bill, said its principal sponsor, state Sen. Carl Glimm, R-Kila, is to avoid confusion in state law.
‘A man is a man and a woman is a woman,’ said Rishi Sunak this week.
New memo from the Department of Health and Human Services seeks definition ‘based on the immutable biological traits.’
The Nebraska bishops, along with the Nebraska Catholic Conference, urged voting in favor of the “sex on the certificate at birth” bylaw amendment.
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