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A legislator in Washington on Thursday compared the legislation intended Prohibition of transgender athletes From maiden and women’s sports in the country to racial segregation in the United States, claiming that they “give many the same arguments” throughout the aisles.
Washington Democratic State Tail. Kristine Reeves He spoke during the Executive Session of the Home Education Committee on Thursday morning, where the members of the Committee presented the SB 5123, a bill that aimed to expand protection for students, including gender expression and gender identity.
File – State Representative Kristine Reeves, Democrats of Washington, speaks during a roundtable for weapons safety in Seattl, Washington, Friday, September 27, 2019. (Chona cousin/Bloomberg via Gettty Images)
“I remember the time in the history of our country not so long ago … where people like my grandfather said I couldn’t participate in sports activities because he was a black man,” Reeves said after the proposed amendment account.
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“I can remember the time in the history of our country, chairs for ladies, where people like my grandfather and my great-grandfather were not allowed to participate in processes and places in our society because of the color of their skin, because people had been for years to generations-the blacks were less than human, that blacks were animals, that blacks had brains with white American people.
Reeves argued that similar scientific studies that argued the unjust physical advantage for transcends in women’s sports, people also “created science to believe in the argument that my father, my grandfather, my grandparents and grandparents were less of our society.”
“We repeat history, Mrs. speaker, in this discussion, and it is very scary to me that today we present a lot of the same arguments about this subset of our population, my grandparents, my grandparents have had to be subject to years, and they are told that they are less without deserving the same as them.”
Republican legislators At a committee meeting, he did not agree with Reeves’ claim, including her remarks that “we have the opportunity to develop”.
US President Donald Trump, who was joined by athletes, signed an executive order “No Men in Women’s Sport” in the Eastern Room in the White House 5 February 2025. In Washington, DC (Andrew Hardik/Getty Images)
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“This amendment is focused on athletic participation, and one thing that does not change is bone density, lung capacity and the ability a man has compared to the female,” Michael Keaton opposed. “There are too many stories this year that females are injured or females who have been working all their lives to achieve the goal and can be successful in something, dedicate their lives to them, and then the male changes categories and takes away from it.”
Ambassador Travis Couture repeated these feelings, adding that the amendment on the law “is not about the black eye in the history of our racial relationships.”
“I don’t really get it as developing it,” he added. “I do not think it is an unwavering argument from me or my part to say that it is our opinion that we actually pass from the time before the IX title, the time before women had rights in this country, the time before the girls could actually go and compete with other girls without risk to be hurt or to have a school or other opportunities robbed from them.”
“Let’s go back in history, not ahead.”
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President Donald Trump signed an executive command last month needed by the subjects receiving federal funding to align with the title IX, which Trump’s administration changed last month to recognize protection based on biological sex – canceling former President Joe Biden 2024.
US President Donald Trump questions journalists during a press conference at Roosevelt Road Room of the White House 21 January 2025 in Washington, DC (Photo Andrew Hardik/Getty Images)
Trump’s administration headed to several countries that openly refused to follow, which encouraged the federal funds to withdraw. The most important thing is that the administration stopped $ 175 million of federal funding University of Pennsylvania After the education department launched an investigation into the University for potential violations of the IX title.
The funding break was not a direct result of the investigation, which means that the Ivy League school could lose more in federal financing.
At the state level, Maine officials were the most open to refuse to comply with the Federal Law, resulting in backwards and back between the state and Trump’s administration.
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