Two Ohio bills aim to create new rules around rights for student athletes, from determining whether student-athletes can profit off a league or team's use of their name, image and likeness to allowing schools to ban transgender women and girls from sports program.
Athletes compete in the 5,000-meter final during the Oregon Relays at Hayward Field on April 23, 2021 in Eugene, Oregon. | Getty Images/Steph Chambers
Linnea Saltz wants to be a lobbyist. Haley Tanne intends to pursue a career as a physicianâs assistant. Chelsea Mitchell plans to obtain a degree in marketing. While all three women have different career aspirations, they all have one common experience: losing to biological males who identify as females in female track competitions.Â
Athletics have played an essential role in all three womenâs lives, and they take a great deal of pride in their accomplishments throughout high school and college.
Lawmakers have vowed to continue the push for legislation banning transgender athletes from girls and women s sports, even though members were unable to garner enough votes to overturn a veto from Gov. Laura Kelly Monday.
The bill, part of an effort sweeping conservative statehouses across the country, was rejected by Kelly last month.
She echoed concerns from LGBT activists that it would harm the mental health of transgender youths, saying it sends a devastating message and threatened the state s economic standing.
In a tense vote Monday, the Kansas Senate nearly garnered enough votes to move forward with overturning the veto. Members ultimately fell one vote shy of the 27-member threshold needed to override, with three Republican members opting to oppose the legislation.
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