Welcome to the whole story. Im Anderson Cooper. Theres a heated battle across the country right now over transgender girls and women. And if states have the right to bar them from sports unless they compete with boys and men. The laws on this differ from state to state. And at the elite levels, each sport makes its own rules and who can participate over the next hour, well take you behind this emotional and politicized issue and how the controversies affecting the lives of athletes around the country around fifth grade, i think is when i started to notice i didnt exactly fit who everyone thought i was i always felt trapped trying to become her the first time i felt that i truly belonged was plane on the girls softball team. All right. Im ready. One going out the middle nice job, right i was horrified a few months later when i found out that that might be taken away why . Im get It Job Number and ohio bill that would ban Transgender Athletes from girls and womens sports is moving through the state house the debate about trans athletes has exploded in the political arena. This legislation takes a supportive environment away from kids who need it i mean, the idea that we have biological boys playing and girls sports. It is the womens issue of our time well, i am sympathetic to trans teams. Im more concerned about girls female victory matters, and fair competition matters. Remember, dont go 20 states have already passed, some form of ban on trans student athletes. I always arkansas, mississippi, alabama kentucky, kansas lawmakers vote to ban Transgender Athletes should transgender women be allowed to compete in womens sports ohios process as of right now, is that you either have to have been on Hormone Replacement Therapy for a year and or you have to have a doctors note saying that you qualify that can mean that they have to send in your bone density, your weight on a charge in comparison to cis girls of the same age, or height, and comparison its anxiety inducing because every time i never know if im gonna be approved or not i will never forget the de that i got the email that she had been approved to play my mom came into my room and she was crying and i asked her what was wrong and she said that i was approved to play. She just looks at me with tears in her eyes and im crying and shes crying. And were hugging each other. I said the state agrees that im a girl i think i kind of almost just blacked out because it was so amazing for me, its allowed me to make a lot of friends its allowed me to have a place where i can feel safe and be myself and its not questioned even if youre getting things turned her head when ohios trans athlete ban was first introduced, i was the only Trans High School Athlete female athlete in ohio. She looked us in the eye and said, mom, dad im it if i dont speak out, who will hello. I am ember. I am a trans athlete i am a senior. I used to perform in theater and i i loved it one of my voice started to change. I stopped. I actually decided to learn asl because i didnt want to speak at all i hated my voice so much. Thank you very much i also had wanted to play in sports, specifically softball and it was incredible. I was treated just like everyone else. But i found out that the state was actually trying to take away my ability to play on a girls team these are high school athletes. This is not about winning for me. Its about being on a team. Its about being able to relax not focus on other political policies, not focused on the world for just a few hours every person deserves that right. Thank you the water has just been such like a safe place for me. Just hearing the sounds of the water. Thats my time with god theres no one else just like being able to converse with myself. It just feels correct last season was just really difficult for many reasons because i was on the mens team but i started to live socially as meghan and then i started hormones and the summer of 2022, this is the dana life of a transpose are and today is meat de, i just wanted to share a little snippet of my life and that they go to class, go to lab. But i also go to the pool twice a day and some hard to get loose and get ready for me. I went to the locker room to go on my pt tape on my boobs because i still cant wear a top sentence on the mens team. So weve got to cover the girls wearing a men suit, having a tape my breast, even just competing against men it says fueled separating himself and it starts to hurt more because it feels like a part of you is dying and wilting away. It says feels looking to finish drawing. I believed i needed to sacrifice being trans in order to swim. I was like, i just i have to but like i just couldnt anymore i want to with hymns and my goal is to compete on the womens team. Their regulations for trans athlete is having a very low testosterone under ten nanomoles per liter for a year lovely high mom. Are you doing today weve got texas cold. Thats going to put a sweatshirt on. How are you . But i did just see my results. Yeah. Unfortunately, theyre not where i want them but at least your testosterone is downright. Its stayed the same, which is my goals and aspirations, you know, kind of hinging on this one result, something i have no control over at all. Im im still going back and forth whether or not i want to up my dosage or not. Im dr. Kopan said the more you increase Estrogen Dosage like it could be like tenderness and brass, but i havent felt that in awhile. Well, and thats your cost. I just want would say for you while im active i have no history of clotting like to its called what do you expect what do you expect youre more than welcome to give me gracie money if you want to support that. Charging things on the car my baby. I love you. I love you too. Ill talk later sleep at night on a mattress from Mattress Firm i sleep at the Memorial Day Sales save up to 500 on temper padic and get a 300 instant gift, get matched at Mattress Firm, sleep at night theres a certain color always shines on me everybody the way engineered to minimize noise and built for adventure which can also be your own quiet cabinet. The the fully electric qa etron. In an electric vehicle that recharges you how we get there . Matters this is a keepsake frame. 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How many kicks i was going to take off each wall and so when i actually touched the wall and did it in a 52, 82 i was shocked lotto suffering and sacrifice. But on the flip side, there was accomplishment and then recently, like everyone in the world, i started hearing news about lia thomas competing the A Thomas Formerly competed as a member of the university of pens mens Swimming Team completing 34 months of Hormone Replacement Therapy far beyond the 12 month acie requirement to compete on the womens team watching Lia Thomas Compete in the 500 freestyle was really devastating because im sorry Swim Records Sat at the Ivy League Championship by the university of pennsylvanias lia thomas Everybody Knows this is not right and its unfair. And i felt like i was witnessing Women Tripling Up did call us grigor rule no, we had thomas didnt break a rule i dont care what surgeries they have. I dont care what they inject into their bloodstream. They dont i dont belong in womens sports in swimming. You intimately experience the difference in biology you can feel the profound difference in even the wake of a male teammate. Next you i quickly began to understand that we needed an organization that could advocate for a female protected category and sports i am headed to the Vagus Airport right now. We are throwing an inner the National Womens sports summit for my nonprofit independent counsel on womens sports. We dont have to tell people were judging how you want to live your life. We are trying to educate sports its policymakers on how to write policy i think time is of the essence, right now because policymakers and various sports are making decisions today yeah got it its in the car in ohio. A lot of the antitransgender legislation really started picking up dramatically. September of 2022 and it started really with the state school board the Ohio State School board introduced a resolution that was basically targeting all pt students. But in particular transgender students, to say things like students couldnt play on the sports teams of their Gender Identity youre taking a Day Off School to speak to the board of education what do you want them to hear . Bottom line, this resolution . And puts high school learns in danger you are telling these schools that it is, okay . Two discriminate against trans people i mean, its its infuriating, but its nothing new. The fight over trans people being able to play sports represents for me, being human not been demonized it represents been able to be ourselves and be able to do something that we love we are limiting testimony. To three minutes new transgender surgery is a new modern lobotomy were just doing it all over again. Female athletes well be cheated of honors that theyve earned we do not want to make the National News because one of our girls gets raped in the restroom please remember Gender Transition is an experiment. There are some absolutes a boy, a boy, and a girl is a girl my daughter is now in college under her male name. If we dont affirmer because we believe in science and reality, we believe my daughter Needs Mental Health care, not a chest binder or wrong sex hormones this proposed resolution includes false scientific assertions and attempts to require our district to discriminate against an endanger our lgbtq plus students these strategies of silence, censorship, and invalidation dont result in less queer kids. They result in dead or damaged queer children, one in five transgender and Nonbinary Youth attempted suicide. How many lives must be . Destroyed before we allow people to be who they are do queer kids have a right to life amber zao welcome. And you have three minutes, please . I know why you were doing this. You are afraid of me i get it. The boys at my school are afraid of me to my Freshman Year of pe they chucked balls at my head as though i was a literal target. I was ridiculed called the b word and the f slur. Luckily, i was given permission to change in the gender neutral bathroom but imagine what would have happened if im if i was made to change in the boys locker room just the fact that this resolution is being considered sends the message to to queer and trans kids. That liked me. That we are subhuman i would like to point out the girls at her school, dont seem to be scared at all. She has been using the Girls Restroom and locker rooms for five years and playing on their sports teams for two years and they dont seem to care less. But you are scared and believe me, im the parent of a transgender child in rural ohio our family knows fear i have lived in fear. My husband and i since our child first came out as trans because we knew that society would not be kinder known, made them this way. And there was nothing. We could do to change them even if we wanted to its just how they were born thank you hours of testimony is just wrapping up my respect to have a vote some time around 6 00 this body must take a stand on one of the defining issues impacting education today, the Biden Administration that is threatening local control its coercive approach to this issue and thats the issue of Gender Identity, which has profound ramifications for the rights of parents. And a biological girls and education and athletics any discussion about the only Common Thread i heard from people was these kids exist and theres been absolutely no discussion on what we can do for these kids and that bothers me probably more than anything else on this whole discussions and i didnt actually like to make a motion to refer this to Executive Committee. I second that motion it goes to give any its almost certainly our hope was that being sent to the Executive Committee to study that in committee wasnt supposed to meet again, that that meant the resolution was dead for that year yes yes no no yes . No no yes. No yes. Yes . Yes yes yes seven no no. Yes . Yes on a boat, of 12 to seven, the Shai Resolution will be referred to the executive consideration my. Babies good job good. Yeah. Thats a Rare We For Trans Rights in ohio. Yeah. Nice work just to tell the legislature reconvenes. We get to go through this all over again. Ready to go home and yes, i will read you your homework in the car while you drive. Thank you very much Moscow Pistorius was at the absolute peak of his celebrity in olympic heroes, shocking murder trial, we learned i much darker individual, how would really happen with jesse l. Martin tonight at nine on cnn welcome to the waiver hood with wave. Finding your style is fine the music stops grabbing. 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