Lawmakers voted to block a bill that would have required the California Interscholastic Federation, the governing body for high school sports, to adopt rules banning students whose sex was assigned male at birth from participating on a girls school sports team.
Assemblymember Kate Sanchez, a Republican who authored the bill, said the proposal was about fairness.
“AB 89 is about protecting women,” she said. “Full stop and that’s it.”
Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva, a Democrat on the committee, said she would support a study on transgender athletes’ participation in sports but that the proposed bans were an attack on transgender youth.
“This is wrong, and this is cruel,” she said.More here