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Ohio News Jun 25, 2021 FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2021 file photo, fwo Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers look out from the Ohio Statehouse roof in Columbus. Republican lawmakers in Ohio on Thursday, June 24, have moved to approve a bill banning transgender girls from participating in female sports teams in high school or college. The proposal, titled the Save Women’s Sports Act, would require schools and higher education institutions in the state to designate “separate single-sex teams and sports for each sex.” (Doral Chenoweth/The Columbus Dispatch via AP) By FARNOUSH AMIRI and ANDREW...

pixabay In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, host Mike Thompson discusses the proposed legislation that would prevent transgender athletes from participating in school and college sports. Ohio High School Athletic Association spokesperson Tim Stried joins the show. Behind The Masks The state of Ohio no longer requires you to wear a face-covering if you’ve received the COVID-19 vaccine. Because the state does not have a system to tell if you’ve had the vaccine, Ohio really no longer requires anyone to wear a face-covering. Most of Gov. Mike DeWine’s...

"We need to ensure girls are included, engaged and encouraged to participate in programs reserved for them. "Former Olympic gold medalist decathlete Bruce - now Caitlyn - Jenner recently agreed and was vilified by the constantly changing judgment of today's cancel culture." Pressed for a brief comment by a reporter at the start of this month, socialite and celebrity Jenner, who is hoping to become California's next Governor, drew stinging criticism in some quarters by echoing fears over fairness. "I stick with my statements that I made," she told Fox News more recently. "I think we have to ma...

Listen • 1:21 Girls play a soccer match in Northeast Ohio, part of which is regulated by the Ohio High School Athletic Association. The OHSAA has policies that balance inclusion of transgender athletes with fair competition. Lawmakers have introduced bills in the Ohio House and Senate that would ban transgender athletes from competing in high school or collegiate sports. Backers of the Save Women’s Sports Act say the law is needed to prevent unfair advantages for trans athletes. But there are already policies in place in Ohio intended to provide safeguards. The propose...

0:57 The proposed legislation would require that athletes only be allowed on teams that match their sex at birth. Transgender athletes would effectively be banned in Ohio. Ohio High School Athletic Association spokesman Tim Stried says that goes against the regulating agency’s mission… “All student athletes should have the opportunity to participate in Jr. High and high school sports and that does include transgender student athletes.” He says OHSAA currently screens transgender girls to make sure they don’t present an unfair advantage. “The policy is set-up to include medical sci...