Indiana state Representative Michelle Davis has introduced a bill that would prohibit transgender girls from competing on women's college sports teams in the state.
Indiana state Rep. Michelle Davis, R-Whiteland, proposed a bill on Thursday that would ban transgender girls from playing on women's college teams in the state. The bill, HB 1041, would require state colleges to designate athletic teams as either 'male,' 'female,' or 'coeducational.' Under this legislation, a biologically male athlete could not participate on a female team.
The bill also requires schools outside of Indiana that compete against Indiana teams to notify the opposing team of any biologically male athletes participating in female sports. State colleges would also have to establish “grievance procedures” to deal with violations of these rules, according to the bill. Schools which do not comply with the bill would be subject to a “civil action,” the bill reads. The measure will be read for the first time to the state's House Education Committee next week. State Rep. Davis did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Current Indiana law prohibits transgender girls in K-12 schools from competing in sports based on gender identity. State Rep. Davis authored that bill, which overcame a veto by Gov. Eric Holcomb in 2022. She is also behind a bill prohibiting state physicians from knowingly providing gender transition procedures to those under the age of 18. That measure also included “civil enforcement actions” for these individuals. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita in October spoke out against a court decision supporting a state inmate's right to receive transgender procedures while imprisoned. Autumn Cordellioné had argued a state law barring the state's Department of Corrections from providing gender transition surgeries to people who are imprisoned is discriminatory
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