Transgender Sports Ban In Florida Headed For Likely Defeat.
In a major win for LGBTQ community and activists, the mean spirited law banning trans youth from sports will fail even in a GOP controlled Florida Senate. (Politico)
“The bill, which specifies that K-12 and college sports teams must be designated based on “biological” sex while charging state agencies with crafting policies to hash out gender disputes, was condemned by the LGBTQ community and lawmakers who viewed the measure as discriminatory toward transgender students.
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Anti-transgender bills are now all the rage in various legislatures in a ploy to whip up the base of hard right evangelical voters. These proposed laws are not designed to solve any problems because none exist, it’s a way to draw out the culture war that has been largely lost by the Christian Right. The tide of American public opinion has turned towards granting equal rights for LGBTQ Americans. Religious conservatives, on the other hand, are used to being in the middle of a raging culture war for the last 40 years with the ultimate goal of abridging the rights and freedoms of sexual minorities and are still looking for those battles where they still find them. They will ultimately lose and they know it.
