Last week, Ohio’s House of Representatives passed legislation that would forbid schools in the state from permitting so-called transgender women from joining women’s sports for the obvious reason that “transgender women” are really men.
Ohio Senate Republicans weren’t happy about it, and won’t go along. GOP Governor Mike DeWine said he won’t sign any bill that bans “transgender” girls and women from joining women’s sports.
But more disturbing than GOP opposition to the bill and why it won’t likely pass is what happened when Jena Powell, who represents Ohio’s 80th district and sponsored the measure, rose to speak.
Her Democrat colleagues began an unhinged Antifa-like protest that was at best ugly and rude, and at worst an implicit threat of violence.
The Bill
House Bill 61, attached as an amendment to another sports-related bill, is simple enough. Boys are not girls, men are not women, and the former will not be permitted to compete against the latter.
The language is straightforward, and unimpeachable: “No school, interscholastic conference, or organization that regulates interscholastic athletics shall permit individuals of the male sex to participate on athletic teams or in athletic competitions designated only for participants of the female sex.”
It also establishes the mean to determine an athlete’s real sex:
If a participant’s sex is disputed, the participant shall establish the participant’s sex by presenting a signed physician’s statement indicating the participant’s sex based upon only the following:
(1) The participant’s internal and external reproductive anatomy;
(2) The participant’s normal endogenously produced levels of testosterone;
(3) An analysis of the participant’s genetic makeup.
The bill prohibits state agencies from fielding complaints from “transgenders,” or investigating schools that prohibit the insanity. Even better, it also protects women:
Any participant who is deprived of an athletic opportunity or suffers a direct or indirect harm as a result of a violation of this section shall have a private cause of action.…
Any participant who is subject to retaliation or other adverse action by a school, school district, interscholastic conference, or organization that regulates interscholastic athletics as a result of reporting a violation of this section shall have a private cause of action.
The bill applies to colleges and also protects schools who refuse to permit the insanity.
Antifa Tactics Begin
“It is crucial to preserving womens’ rights and the integrity and women’s and girl’s sports,” Powell said:
Across our country female athletes are currently losing scholarships, opportunities, medals, education and training opportunities. This amendment will require schools … to designate separate teams for participants of the biological sex.
That’s when the maniacal, terroristic pounding began.
“Powell offered the change over the loud objections of Democratic lawmakers, who pounded on tables as Lakewood Rep. Michael Skindell yelled ‘unfair,’” the Columbus Dispatch reported:
“The trans children need us to stand up for them. And I cannot believe,” House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes started. “Actually, I can believe that we are here, because the cruelty truly is the point.”
The bill is not “unfair,” and “trans children” don’t need Sykes or her colleagues to “stand up for them.” They need psychiatric help.
Skindell might also drop by the headshrinker’s office. He pounded his desk with Satanic fury:
That aside, GOP Representative Sara Carruthers appealed to parents, the newspaper reported: “If you have a daughter, you should believe in this.”
The GOP’s DeWine says government mustn’t involve itself in sports:
This issue is best addressed outside of government, through individual sports leagues and athletic associations, including the Ohio High School Athletic Association, who can tailor policies to meet the needs of their member athletes and member institutions.
How that prescription would work when a “transgender girl” and her parents sue a school for violating federal policy we are not given to know.
Powell is undeterred: “Biological Males Don’t Belong In Women’s Sports” her Facebook page says.
