This has made the unhinged Democrats very upset, but, even if Governor Cooper vetoes it (he will) the veto will be over-ridden
NC Senate votes to ban trans girls from playing on school sports teams aligning with gender identity
Transgender rights took center stage Tuesday in North Carolina as the GOP-controlled General Assembly advanced legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care and trans participation in sports.
Hours after the House Health Committee advanced a bill banning state facilities from treating trans minors with hormones and gender-affirming surgeries, the Senate voted 31-17 to ban trans girls from playing on school sports teams that align with their gender identity. One Democrat — Sen. Val Applewhite of Cumberland County — and all Republicans voted yes.
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has little power to block legislation now that Republicans hold veto-proof majorities in both chambers.
Sen. Kevin Corbin, a Macon County Republican and one of the primary sponsors, argued on the Senate floor that the bill “is not against anybody” and is a necessary precaution to protect female athletes. But Wake County Democratic Sen. Lisa Grafstein, the only out LGBTQ+ state senator, criticized him for advancing during Pride Month a bill she said targets a vulnerable minority group “because of a nationalized agenda to dehumanize them for political points.”
Funny how Democrats have thrown actual, real, biological women under the bus to pander to the most extreme of the Rainbow Coalition, eh?
“Frankly, members, this is a very common sense bill,” Corbin said. “It’s not against anybody. It simply does this: It simply prevents biological males playing sports in the store.
“That’s that’s what this bill does.”
Grafstein said it’s ironic that lawmakers are passing bills targeting LGBTQ+ kids during Pride month.
Should they have waited till July to protect women? Wait to keep males out of women’s sports?
The bill prohibiting trans girls from playing on girls’ middle school, high school and college sports teams could return to the House floor for a final concurrence vote as early as Wednesday. Both chambers passed different versions before legislative leaders opted to proceed with the House bill.
The House version also looks to ban state institutions from getting involved in messing with children
The proposal would prohibit public health care facilities, including public hospitals and University of North Carolina affiliates, from performing any surgical gender transition procedure on a minor or providing them with puberty-blocking drugs or cross-sex hormones. Beginning Oct. 1, it would also prohibit using state funds to pay for any gender transition procedure.
It would be best if the House just go with the sports ban, then have the House and Senate discuss a separate bill restricting the gender transition madness for kids.
D Sellars, a 40-year-old nonbinary parent from Fuquay-Varina, said the slew of bills targeting trans people in North Carolina and around the country “just marginalizes us more, just pushes us out of the mainstream more, and it gives bigots more ammunition.”
Sellars, who donned a “Gender Identity Scares My State’s Government” shirt Tuesday at the General Assembly, said they’re especially concerned about the sports restrictions, which they said could make nonbinary kids like their own child feel isolated.
Maybe the parents should stop buying into the trans and 937 genders fads and wake their kids up.
I am sure there is at least one judge in NY just waiting to strike this down as “unconstitutional”.