Sponsored by Rep. Peggy Scott (R-Andover), the “Preserving Girls’ Sports Act” states: “only female students may participate in an elementary or secondary school level athletic team or sport that an educational institution has restricted to women and girls.”
“I can assure you that our children will not stop being transgender just because you try to remove us from sports,” said Rep. Liish Kozlowski (DFL-Duluth), who calls the proposal “a bill to bully trans girls and non-binary kids.”
Needing 68 House votes for passage, HF12 could only garner party-line results with 67 affirmative votes but 66 negative votes. It was then reconsidered and tabled in pair of procedural moves.
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