Ohio House passes bill to ban transgender girls from female sports | USA TODAY

In a late night session, the Ohio House passed a bill prohibiting transgender girls from participating in female sports in high school and college.

RELATED: Trans athletes are speaking out against bills to ban them from sports

House Republicans passed a bill late Wednesday that would prohibit transgender girls from joining female sports teams in high school and college, shoving the proposal into an unrelated bill before taking off for summer break.

Wednesday's vote, which came on the first day of Pride Month, marked the second time Republicans sought a back-door path for the controversial measure. The House initially added it to a bill to allow college students to profit off their name, image and likeness, a move criticized by Gov. Mike DeWine when it passed last year.

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24 comments

  1. That is the fly in the ointment. Imagine Mike Tyson re-identifies as Transgender and he then becomes World Champion as a woman boxer, he’d waltz that one, whatever that means. 😉

    1. Common sense requires a basic working knowledge: context. You lack the necessary education to deduce anything of value.

      You have Common Nonsense.

    2. Sure YouTube. AN UNKNOWN ERROR HAS OCCURRED. Lol.

      You GNIKCUF SEISSUP. One has to resort to typing words backwards or your algorithm will delete messages that hurt your feelings. Lol.

    3. @ashayacatl YouTube has word filters. Use the wrong word and your comment is blocked. Channel owners can add to that list.

      If you cannot figure out how to reword your statements without gnipyt drawkcab then perhaps you need a thesaurus. There are plenty online.

      I get around the filters by editing my post a minute or so later, adding a “.” then saving. If I get the “Unknown Error” message, I copy the post and paste it into a new post, then reword it.

  2. I agree with you guys 👏 because they are stronger than us.
    I’ve gotten injured from that at a football game. ugh it was a terrible experience.

  3. Shout to Ohio! Good Work upholding morals and biology. Even though these ideologies shouldn’t even be so apparent like the man said only 11 in 6 years! How could a majority cater everything to such a small minority makes no sense
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  4. Now if everyone else will follow suit….let them all have a fair chance of winning…wtg Ohio

  5. I took a Gender Studies course at Texas Christian University (it’s a real course, and it’s not as useless as Conservatives think), and I read in our textbook at 1 point that roughly 7% of the U.S. population (or 1 in 15 people) is openly in the LGBT+ community, but only a fraction of them are actually in the T category, so even for Republican politicians, FOX News hosts, and Conservative YouTubers, their blatant anti-transgender propaganda makes no logical sense (on top of being morally wrong) because they’re attacking the minority group of a minority group.

  6. Don’t they know that boys make the best female athletes? Haven’t they seen how much faster and stronger boys with long hair are? Don’t they want to win?

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