CHAMBERSBURG \u2013 This week, the United States Supreme Court held up the ban on transgender athletes participating in women\u2019s sports for the states that had the legislation already on the books.<\/p>\n
SCOTUS said it was legal to do it.<\/p>\n
In Pennsylvania, Senator Judy Ward reintroduced the Save Women\u2019s Sports Act in April to the Pennsylvania Senate and the measure passed the chamber.<\/p>\n
It moved onto the PA House for action, but it has been in committee this whole time.<\/p>\n
The Save Women\u2019s Sport Act would require scholastic sports teams to be designated based on biological sex \u2013 so biological men (who identify as a female) couldn\u2019t play on the same team as biological women.<\/p>\n
With SCOTUS giving the greenlight to other legislation, why wouldn\u2019t PA pass this one?<\/p>\n
PA Representative Rob Kauffman insisted, \u201cAfter the US Supreme Court decision that said that if you\u2019re going to protect women in their sports, their Title IX sports, this is the way to do it. Do it through legislation, do it at the state level, and we have been attempting this time and time again. They said, oh, it\u2019s unconstitutional, and oh no, it violates tight Title IX. Oh no, you can\u2019t do this, you can\u2019t do that. Well, the Supreme Court said so, and the day after the Supreme Court said so, we are shuffling that bill from committee to committee again to avoid an up or down vote in the full House.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michele Jansen of News Talk 103.7FM said, \u201cMeanwhile they keep trying to press legislation, so that Pennsylvania will add, and I don\u2019t even understand how, and I think the Supreme Court gave you some good defenses against it, LGBTQ plus AI, whatever, to civil rights in Pennsylvania, and the Supreme Court just laid out why that is not going to be a good constitutional measure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pat Ryan of News Talk 103.7FM noted, \u201cYou\u2019re asking for the leader of the House of the in Harrisburg to actually do her job to understand the law instead of getting on her knees and at the altar of such a very, very small group of people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kauffman said, \u201cBut that is the small minutia of folks that they cater to on a daily basis in Harrisburg. I mean, I\u2019ve even had Democrat members who said to me, why don\u2019t we just vote this, I\u2019m fine, let\u2019s just vote this thing up or down vote, but their leadership caters to that small group of folks, and they are told no, we\u2019re not voting this up or down, you just pass it back and forth from committee to committee.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Leader of the PA House is Joanna McClinton.<\/p>\n
Ryan said, \u201cThat\u2019s the best of the party, that\u2019s who they put in charge in the House of Representatives in Harrisburg.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s the rising star,\u201d Kauffman confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAMBERSBURG \u2013 This week, the United States Supreme Court held up the ban on transgender athletes participating in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[449,28,30,29,67515,23823,726,25095,1823,101048],"class_list":["post-234071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-court","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-protecting","tag-ruling","tag-sports","tag-supreme","tag-vote","tag-womens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}