An Ohio House bill that would ban transgender girls and women from playing female high school and college sports could be up for a vote on the House floor as soon as Wednesday.
The most recent version does not include a requirement for genital inspection exams.
But Mariah Payne, a North Ridgeville counselor and representative of the Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities of Ohio, said the studies that claim physical advantages by transgender athletes that have been cited by proponents of the bill – the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Center for Christian Virtue are among the bill’s backers – are flawed.
She said that comparing boys’ and girls’ times in high school sports shows that boys are faster at the same events. Ohio is the country’s seventh largest state by population. Yet only a small number of transgender girls are playing girls sports in junior high and high school, according to the Ohio High School Athletic Association.
The Cleveland Heights-University Heights City school district recently worked with the OHSAA for a transgender student to play sports at Heights High, said Malia Lewis, a member of the school board.
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