State Senator Angela Hill (R- King Cakeville) submitted the following guest column.
The Mississippi Fairness Act (SB #2536) will prevent biological males from
dominating female-only sports. It should be a no-brainer, a slam dunk in
Mississippi right? Wrong. I’ve filed this bill for the past 2 years in the Mississippi State
Senate. It was never given a chance last year
as Senator Dennis Debar refused to bring it up for a vote in the Education Committee last year. I amended another bill in the Senate
last year, but Representative Richard Bennett tabled it in the House
Education committee. Men in both chambers of a strongly
Republican-controlled legislature killed the bills to protect women competing in sports.Status & text of bill.
This bill should have strong Bipartisan support as the people of Mississippi
support it overwhelmingly. Mason-Dixon polling reports 87% of
Republicans, 65% Democrats, and 83% of independents support the
Mississippi Fairness Act. 79% of Mississippians polled
think biological males that identify as women should not be allowed to
compete in women-only sports! Does anyone in Republican
leadership on High Street really care what the people of MS want
regarding this issue? Who is going to protect your
daughters and sisters’ rights to fair competition?
Idaho passed virtually the same bill last year. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed an Amicus brief along with 14 other states in support of Idaho’s new law when it was challenged in court. It is nice the Attorney General fights such battles afar but why won't she fight them at home? Where is her public support on Senate bill 2536? Good question. Secretary of state Michael Watson is the only statewide official who is publicly supporting this bill. Republican women across the state are making calls to the Capitol voicing their support. Haley Guest, the wife of Congressman Michael Guest, is supporting the Mississippi Fairness Act as well. Senator Rita Parks has the opportunity to save this bill by walking to the podium and calling the bill up for a vote since it passed her committee first.
The case of the Connecticut female track star who has been sidelined by biological males is likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Two biological males captured 15 women’s state championship titles, set 17 individual records, and deprived females of over 80 opportunities to advance in the 2017-19 seasons alone. Passing this law only strengthens both the Connecticut and Idaho cases. Tennessee is preparing to pass this type of bill along with probably15-20 other states gearing up. Coaches in Mississippi are telling me this issue is knocking on our door on Mississippi.
Fast forward to this session. My bill made it through two Senate committees even though it was double-referred and now sits as the last item on the Senate Calendar facing today’s deadline. This should not be a heavy lift for a Republican-controlled legislature that touts God at every election. What’s the holdup? 79% of Mississippians are watching and waiting to see if they will be let down once again by Republican leadership. This is potentially the hottest issue in the country since President Biden’s Executive Order stands to destroy women’s sports as well as rolling back over 50 years of Title IX Federal law designed to give women an equal playing field.
The states are the last bastion of hope and sanity on this issue. It’s about fairness to women... scholarships, titles, all their time and dedication to training is at stake. What will Mississippi do to protect women’s sports in 2021? The excuses I’ve heard to kill this bill do not hold water. We will know by close of business tomorrow if we fight for women or if we signal to them that their plight to have a level playing field in MS sports isn’t high on the list of priorities in a statehouse run exclusively by men.
32 comments:
Is this really a problem in Mississippi? Or is it a solution looking for a problem?
What is the actual number of transgender athletes currently participating in girl’s sports? If a law is passed that doesn’t affect a single Mississippian, is it really in our best interest to spend millions in attorneys fees fighting it in court?
To put this issue in context, Allyson Felix, a woman with more gold medals than Usain Bolt, has a lifetime best of 49.26 seconds in the 400M. In 2018, there were nearly 300 high school boys in the U.S. alone who beat that time.
Testosterone suppression does not undo the biological advantages men possess: larger hearts, lungs, and bones; greater bone density; more-oxygenated blood; more fast-twitch muscle fiber; and vastly greater muscle mass.
Kudos to this state senator for standing up for the integrity of women's sports here in Mississippi, as are legislatures in other states. The Biden Administration, by attempting to force radical transgender policy through executive order, is clearly on the wrong side of science and general human decency on this issue.
Everyone wants equality and same pay. there should not be any male or female sports. Just plain sports. Males and females compete and let the best person, not sex, get the job.
It seems no one actually wants equality. Especially those who cry so much about it.
Women want equal pay and they should get it. They should have to compete against the men.
Blacks want equal rights. They should compete against every other race without having lower requirements than other races.
Lets make everything equal. Everyone wants it, until it comes to them actually being equal.
You would think the Right would fast-track this one through before the Left figures out what they think about it. Women's rights vs. LGBT rights. What a quandry for the all-inclusive party.
Most people agree with the underlying premise of fairness in sports. That is indeed a no brainer.
But the bill is terribly written.
Did you intend for it to require universities to roam their campuses policing whether a trans person uses the wrong restroom? And get sued if they miss one? Because that's precisely what it does.
Did you intend for already-poor schools to be targets of expensive lawsuits when an activity's organizing body (NOT the school) mandates letting trans males compete as women? Even if the school does nothing wrong? Because that's precisely what it does.
Get a non-activist lawyer to help you rewrite it for next year, then it will be a no brainer.
One might wonder if in the majority Republican Senate, headed by LG Hosemann, if this bill is being killed so that the Democrats in the Senate don't have to make this public vote.
If that's the case, it would be the LG trying to protect all those Democrats that he has in his corner due to their appointments to committee chairmenships and vice chairmen. Its certainly not to protect the Republican members - hell, it should be allowed if for no other reason to get this as a recorded vote.
But - that's the 'leadership' that we currently have under that dome.
One thing about Senator Hill; you can’t deny her courage. She’ll stand up no matter what it costs.
Just another reason to boot the entire legislature to the curb next election
@11:07
I was with you until you got to equal rights. I do not think that Blacks, Whites, or any other racial groups have a problem competing with each other. The problem was the laws enacted to unlevel the playing field. Laws that were intact for a few generations, not to mention the "unwritten laws" of our great society.
like any of this matters. really? how about
jobs for people of the state? what about education? roads?
it’s not an issue on a national level, let alone a state level. men aren’t going to change their gender to compete in women’s sports!
February 11, 2021 at 11:07 AM; you should go back and read 11:02's comments again, if you read them at all. cause i'm not sure you even know what you're talking about regarding men's and women's sports.
they are separated because there is no equality or fairness in sports if men and women competed against each other. biologically, males are much stronger than females, with the exception of some outliers. take any female world champion and put them against the corresponding male world champion and the female gets her ass beat. one of the williams sisters, i think serena, was asked about men competing against women in tennis, and she said no, because males are much stronger.(paraphrased).
take women's soccer; the female olympic gold winners probably couldn't beat a high school champion male team, and they sure as hell couldn't beat the men's gold medal winners. as for equal pay for men and women in sports; never gonna happen. women's sports are for the most part, much less interesting and do not generate near the same amount of income. therefore, they get paid less. why should a company pay a sales team that sells a boring, less popular product the same amount of money as the sales team that sells the exciting, very popular product, when the different sales teams bring in vastly different amounts of money to the company?
now, if the female is bringing in the same amount of money, and produces the same quality of work as a male, then yes, they should be paid the same, if all things are equal. but all things are not equal. even health insurance costs play a factor in what females are paid. by and large, females use medical services and their health insurance more then men. women have babies and take maternity leave, which costs the company thousands in loss of productivity. things will never be equal because human beings are not equal. there will always be somebody out there busting their ass to be the best, and there will always be somebody out there doing just enough to get by. right or wrong, love it or hate it, that's how things are.
but here you have an administration, a sick ideology, a party of science-deniers, that choose to ignore basic biology, and are doing everything they can to force their degenerate beliefs down everyone's throats. mentally ill males that think they are females do not belong, and should never be allowed, in women's sports, their locker rooms, their showers, or their dressing rooms.
Good point 11:07 I say the same about these so-called championships they hand out so easily. Let South Panola play Alabama and we'll see what they got. And all this talk about Sugar Ray Leonard. Let him fight George Foreman or Lennox Lewis then we'll talk. I'll bet that big Russian guy could beat the shit out of Holm or any of those other MMA females they think are so tough.
Serena? Her too. It's time to cut the bull and compete. This time it's
real!
Venus and Serena Williams once boasted they could beat any male tennis player ranked outside the TOP 200. In 1998, a male ranked 203rd (Karsten Braasch) took them up on their wager and handily beat them both decisively, 6-1 over Serena and 6-2 over Venus.
In 2017, the U.S. women’s national championship soccer team (remember the cropped hair blonde "Karen"?) played the FC Dallas U-15 boys academy team and fell 5-2, according to FC Dallas’ official website.
Let's play out a scenario under this bill.
The MHSAA state championship, girls basketball game is days away, but the home team's leading sophomore scorer has been accused of being a man by the visiting team. The burden shifts, based solely on the accusation, to the 16 year old player accused of being trans gender (SECTION 2).
The accused player needs to now submit a physicians statement based on her external AND internal reproductive anatomy, a blood test establishing the player's testosterone levels, AND a vaguely defined "analysis of the student's genetic makeup" (SECTION 2(a)-(c)).
The player's parents, appalled at the invasive nature of the prescribed testing, find out that they have no recourse against the school for enforcing this policy (SECTION 3). They insist that their daughter play, and the school, in violation of SB 2536, allows the accused player to play.
The home team, lead by the accused student, dominates and wins the title. Aggrieved, a player for the visiting team SUES the home school for monetary damages for violation of SB 2536 (SECTION 4).
And yet, Ms. Hill wants to know why know one takes her bill seriously...
Senator Hill, I keep up with politics as well as anyone I know, and yet, I was totally unaware of this. I'm in total agreement with you, so (a) I think you did a good thing by putting this on JJ to inform others like me, and (b) may I suggest posting the names of the Republican lawmakers who've stood in opposition to this? This is a no-brainer, and it would be instructive for others like me to know the voting positions (or acts of omission) of those members. It might have an impact on their future office-holding plans.
If this comes to a vote, please publicize how each member, or at least print those who support giving males this opportunity.
Hard to believe the number of dunce-posters who actually believe a law should not be in place until an obviously approaching problem has presented itself.
Laws are in place to protect us, to stand in resistance to approaching dangers, not to respond after the fact.
Would these same goobs recommend we wait until we have scrotums hanging out of wrestling tights in the girls' gym before we address the problem?
It’s amazing how quickly Republicans abandon the Constitution.
I hate these biological men have to ruin normal little girls just wanting to play sports.
But the radical feminists screamed for years that women should serve in front line combat units.
( thus competing with men in life or death situations )
So . . . blame it on the feminists.
They've always supported that alphabet soup of Left Wing groups.
Perhaps the feminists should have given their stance a little more thought.
" Would these same goobs recommend we wait until we have scrotums hanging out of wrestling tights in the girls' gym before we address the problem? "
I think that was included in the Left's argument a few years ago.
( When a few freaks wanted men to use the little girls bathroom )
And the big girls toilet for that matter.
Mississippi, left unattended this is our future. Thank you, Angela King, for addressing what some cannot envision.
2:15, I wonder why, you no, know one nos.
Hundreds of thousands of families do not have healthcare in this state and the legislature spends time on QAnon nonsense like this.
@4:49
If the future is that of uneducated morons being pandered to, then yes, Angela Hill is your future.
I thought Obama fixed healthcare.
Angela wants to govern our NCAA schools on this issue. But the NCAA has already ruled.
Hundreds of thousands of families do not have healthcare ...
They can receive healthcare. What they want is for someone else to pay their bills.
Maybe they can get some of the peeps at Mississippi Today who got bailed out by PPP money to pitch in and help. They kept their jobs and their healthcare plan so it is the least they can do.
"Hundreds of thousands of families in this state do not have healthcare." Bullshit. You made that up and you know it.
Meanwhile: Anonymous said...It’s amazing how quickly Republicans abandon the Constitution. February 11, 2021 at 3:20 PM
Care to offer something to back up your insinuation that The Constitution gives boys the right to compete against girls? Bader G is dead, so she's not able to help you stretch the document to suit your fancy.
@10:04
While I won't write you a brief, a state law that allows government funded institutions the ability to require students to submit to internal examinations and blood tests violates every SCOTUS privacy decision in US history.
A choice scene from Crocodile Dundee comes to mind.
https://youtu.be/WHTPLpY8mBI
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