But on Wednesday, the GOP-controlled Kentucky legislature voted overwhelmingly along party lines to bypass the governor and enact the ban. Kentucky is the second state this year to introduce such a ban by bypassing the veto by lawmakers. The state joins Arizona, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Utah to enact similar book legislation in 2022. The debate over the inclusion of trans athletes, especially women and girls, has become a political flashpoint, especially among conservatives. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. However, a 2017 report in the journal Sports Medicine that looked at several related studies found “no immediate or consistent research” suggesting that trans people have an athletic advantage over their peers, and critics say such legislation adds in the discrimination faced by trans people, especially transgender youth. Kentucky law requires public and private schools with a state-run interdisciplinary track system to “designate all sports teams, activities, and sports for students” in grades six through 12 as either “Boys,” “Coed,” or “Girls”. “A sport activity or sport defined as ‘girls’ for students in grades six (6) to twelve (12) is not permitted for male members,” the law states. The law states that “sex” will be based on the “biological sex of the student as referred to in the original, unprocessed student birth certificate issued at the time of birth” or on a affidavit “specifying the biological sex of the student at the time of birth “signed by a medical student who conducted an annual medical examination for the student. While sex is a category widely referred to in physiology, a person’s gender is an innate sense of identity. Factors influencing the sex determination listed on the birth certificate can include anatomy, genetics, and hormones, and there is a great deal of natural variation in each of these categories. For this reason, critics have said that the language of “biological sex” as used in this legislation is too simplistic and misleading. The law also imposes a similar ban on Kentucky public and private colleges that are “members of a national intercollegiate sports association.” The NCAA has opposed such bans, saying last April that it was monitoring them closely to ensure that NCAA tournaments could be held “in a way that is welcoming and respectful to all participants”. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. marginalized community.
“Governor Beshear was the third governor this year to advocate for the dignity of transgender and non-binary youth and vetoed an attempt by lawmakers to delete them. An act of courage and compassion, pushing these marginalized youth even further on the sidelines, “said Sam Ames, the group’s director of defense and government affairs, in a statement. Kentucky lawmakers also went beyond the Senate veto of Bill 1, which contains elements of a “critical race theory” measure that Beshear had said he was “trying to police in class discussions about issues such as race.” Although the law does not implicitly use the term critical race theory, the language of the bill bears similarities to other measures passed in Republican-controlled states. This story has been updated with additional details. CNN’s Amanda Musa contributed to this report.