With Texas plans to ban Trans athletes from competition does that mean the soccer girl won’t be allowed to join the football team to kick – PB/TK
The Texas Law That Could Disqualify Trans Athletes From Competing – By Samantha Allen l May 11 2017
Transgender wrestler Mack Beggs doesn’t want to compete in the girls’ category.
But a Texas high school athletics policy requires him to compete based on the gender listed on his birth certificate.
And now, Texas could pass a law allowing his league to bar him from competing at all.
SB 2095, which passed the Texas state senate by a vote of 22-8 on Wednesday and is now headed to the House of Representatives, does not once use the word “transgender.” What it does say, however, is that the University Interscholastic League, the Texas state-level high school athletics organization, can “declare a student ineligible for competition on the basis of steroid use” even if that student is taking a steroid for a “valid medical purpose.”
Of particular note here is the fact that testosterone treatment for young transgender men like the 17-year-old Beggs could be seen as a basis for disqualification even though cross-sex hormone therapy for transgender people is supported by major medical associations.
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