Minnesota’s house Can not endure the “Sports Act” of Girls ‘weeks after the executive command of President Donald Trump to prohibit biological men to participate in women’s and girls’ sports.
HF12 Needed 68 House voices For the passage, but the bill fell one voice with 67 affirming voices to 66 negative voices.
The law stated that “only female students can participate in an athletic team or sport at a primary school level that is an educational institution limited to women and girls.”
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A person waves with a transgender pride flag during the People’s March and Rally to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, United States, on January 18, 2025. (Nathan Morris/Nurphoto via Getty images)
“Woman means a woman as biologically determined by genetics and defined with regard to the reproductive system of an individual,” De Bill mentions.
A collection of supporters and opponents was seen in the Capitol because they were waiting for the final mood.
The House of Minnesota had an “emotional discussion” before the bill was eventually voted, and the Republican state representative Peggy Scott, who sponsored the law, belonged to those who spoke.
“We cannot allow our girls to be vulnerable to losing their place in the team, being on stage or an injury by a male teammate or male competitor,” she said. “That is not safe and that is not fair for our girls.”
“We have women and girls around the world who are so afraid of competing with biological men that they fall out of sport,” added the Republican State Rep. Marion Rarick to support the bill, referring to a report from 2024 on violence against women and girls.
However, opponents of the bill have pointed to trans -discrimination in their arguments.
“All children deserve to play,” said Democratic State Rep. Brion Curran, the Caucus chairman of the Minnesota Queer legislers. “We will not be complacent with this hateful and dangerous anti-transtrance.”
President Donald Trump signed the director “No Men in Women’s Sports” on 5 February 2025. (AP/imagn)
Democratic State Rep. Liish Kozlowski added that the law “was a bill to bully transmeisjes and non-bay children.”
While this heated debate was underway, the Senate voted on Monday for a bill that forbade transatletes to participate in women’s sports. The bill did not receive the 60 votes needed to continue, which means that at least seven Democrats did not vote.
Trump’s Executive Order Last month, the Education Department ordered school systems, as well as colleges, to inform that the forcing of girls and women to compete with transgender women is a violation of title IX.
After the order was signed, the NCAA revised its own policy with regard to trans -athletes in women’s sports, although the revision has been seen as controversial by some.
Despite the executive command, the Minnesota State High School League announced that it would continue to be transatletes to participate in girls’ sports, with the argument that the Minnesota Human Rights Act and their state group are eligible for them.
Chairman of the Melissa Hortman house (Brooklyn Park-36B) leads a session of the Minnesota State Legislator in the Capitol of Minnesota State in St. Paul on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. (Getty Images)
However, the American attorney -general Pam Bondi wrote a letter at the end of last month that warned of the consequences of the non -goods of the ‘Sports Act van Girls’.
“The Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education started with a title IX research into the Minnesota State High School League,” said Bondi’s letter. “If the investigation of the Department of Education shows that relevant Minnesota entities girls indeed deny equal opportunities to participate in sports and athletic events by demanding them to compete against boys, the Ministry of Justice is ready to take all appropriate measures to maintain federal law.”
State Democratic Rep. Leigh Finke said there is no transatlete in the United States.
“Minnesota has been included for 10 years. We have had zero problems,” said Finke. “But we do this for political reasons. And if you lie over a community long enough, people will believe it.”
Democrats in the House of Minnesota voted down the bill.
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Republican State Rep. Peggy Bennett saw it very differently.
“This account is about honesty, safety and storing girls in Minnesota.”
If the bill were taken into the house on Monday, it would still not have been signed by GOV. Tim Walz, a strong advocate for transgender rights who are expected to pronounce the veto.
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