It goes to the House, which passed a similar bill last year, the What is a Woman Act by Rep. Susan DuBose, R-Hoover.
The Alabama Senate passed a bill Thursday to define male and female in state law, a bill that Gov. Kay Ivey has said she looked forward to signing.
Weaver’s bill defines a female as someone whose reproductive system produces ova and a male as someone whose reproductive system produces sperm. “It will permit our justice system to discriminate against transgender people simply because they are transgender,” Smitherman said. That was taken out of the bill in the committee. Weaver said the amended bill’s purpose is simply to define male and female. She said that will be important guidance for state agencies.
The bill conforms with an emphasis by Republicans nationally that opponents say is intended to marginalize transgender people.During a public hearing on Weaver’s bill Wednesday in a Senate committee, several transgender men and women spoke in opposition to the bill during a public hearing on Wednesday.
“We go about our lives every day. And just associate with other folks and be the genders that we are. And there’s no problem with it.”
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