SALT LAKE CITY, UT — (03-25-22) — Utah’s Republican state lawmakers on Friday, overrode governor Spencer Cox (R) veto of a bill that bans transgender students from playing girls’ sports, ensuring that the anti-LGBT piece of legislation will go into effect.
During a special session called specifically to consider a veto override, both Republican-controlled chambers of the state Legislature met in the late hours to garner the two-thirds threshold to revive the bill.
The measure passed 21-8 in the Senate and 56-18 in the House. Ten Republicans in Utah’s state House and five in the state Senate who had previously voted against the bill changed their votes to support the bill during the override session. Both chambers voted on Friday without additional debate.
Utah Becomes the 12th State to Ban Transgender Athletes
Under the forthcoming law, transgender girls will now be prohibited from playing on school sports teams aligning with their gender identity. The anti-LGBT bill’s language bars “a student of the male sex from competing against another school on a team designated for female students.” It defines “sex” as the “biological, physical condition of being male or female, determined by an individual’s genetics and anatomy at birth.”
Lawmakers passed the bill earlier this month in the final hours of their legislative session, this way they were able to get on right wing media outlets to promote their latest attack against transgender youth.
The veto override vote came just days after Republican Gov. Spencer Cox penned a heartfelt letter to legislators.
“I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live. And all the research shows that even a little acceptance and connection can reduce suicidality significantly,” said Cox.
Gov. Cox also cited statistics showing that while 75,000 kids played high school sports in Utah, only four were transgender, with just one involved in girls’ sports.
Meaning that this was nothing more than an attack on the LGBT community yet again from the GOP.
Article by: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer
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