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Headline: Wisconsin Examiner, 7/12/2023
Co-authors Rep. Barbara Dittrich (R-Oconomowoc) and Sen. Dan Knodl (R-Germantown) said that the bill would “save women’s sports.” Democrats and advocacy groups criticized the bills, saying they are harmful to transgender youth and would represent an unnecessary intervention in children’s sports by the government.
“These bills would afford three categories of sports competition based on a person’s biological sex with an additional co-ed category allowing for all to participate,” the lawmakers wrote in a co-sponsorship memo. “This assures inclusion while also protecting safety and irrefutable biological composition.”
The bills would require schools to designate sports or athletic teams into one of three categories based on students’ sex assigned at birth: males, females or males and females. The bills also require that schools prohibit a “male pupil” from participating on a team designated for “females.”
One bill would apply to K-12 public, independent charter and private voucher schools, while the other would apply to the University of Wisconsin System and technical colleges.
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