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House committee backs bill tightening rules on female-designated school athletics and facilities
Summary
A Montana House committee recommended passage of House Bill 300 after a contentious debate about definitions, implementation and constitutional protections for transgender and intersex students; the committee vote was 58-42.
A Montana House committee of the whole on Wednesday recommended House Bill 300, a measure that would add new language making it an unlawful discriminatory practice for an educational institution to allow a male person to participate in athletic programs designated for female persons and to require that certain intimate spaces be inaccessible to a person of the opposite sex while in use. The committee recommended the bill do pass on a 58-42 vote.
The bill’s sponsor, Representative Seekins Crowe, told members the measure is intended to “provide clarity and reinforcing Montana’s commitment to equality in education” by preventing what she described as sex‑based discrimination in athletics and access to restrooms, locker rooms, showers and sleeping…
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