PENNSYLVANIA (WJAC) \u2014 Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from competing in girls\u2019 and women’s school sports.<\/p>\n
While the decision doesn’t change the law in Pennsylvania, some state lawmakers say the issue still deserves a vote.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court’s ruling applies specifically to laws in Idaho and West Virginia, where the legal challenges began.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania does not have a law banning transgender athletes from girls\u2019 and women’s sports, so for now, nothing changes here.<\/p>\n
The court ruled that states can restrict girls\u2019 and women’s school sports to biological females without violating the US Constitution or Title IX.<\/p>\n
More than two dozen states already have similar laws in place.<\/p>\n
Here in Pennsylvania, a bill that would ban transgender girls from competing in girls\u2019 school sports has been introduced, but it has not received a vote in the general assembly.<\/p>\n
State Representative Jim Rigby says the issue has been stalled long enough.<\/p>\n
“They’ve run it through so many different committees. They just put it up for a vote. Where it falls is false. And again, there’s a lot more pressing issues in the Commonwealth than this one. I know this one means a lot to a lot of people and it probably doesn’t mean anything at all to a lot of other people. So, it’s one of those 50-50 votes. You’re going to make half your constituents happy and upset the other half. But let’s just get it to a vote and whatever the decision is that’s what we go by.\u201d<\/p>\n
Representative Frank Burns also issued a statement on a possible vote.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s been bills brought up multiple times to address the issue, and each time I voted to ensure the safety of female athletes. It’s common sense that biological men should not be participating in female sports. It’s a safety issue and a fairness issue to those female athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court’s decision does not require Pennsylvania to change its current policy.<\/p>\n
For now, school districts across the Commonwealth can continue following their existing guidelines unless state lawmakers take further action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WJAC) \u2014 Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-236854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236854","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=236854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}