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Virginia subcommittee recommends bills restricting participation of biological males in female school sports
Summary
A Senate subcommittee on education voted 3–2 to recommend two bills that would bar biological males from participating on teams designated for females in K–12 and public college athletics.
A Senate subcommittee on education voted to recommend two bills intended to restrict participation of biological males in girls’ and women’s school sports in K–12 public schools and at public institutions of higher education.
Senator Patricia Mulkey, sponsor of Senate Bill 749, told the committee the bill would require school-sponsored athletic teams to be expressly designated by “biological sex” and require a signed physical statement as proof of a student’s biological sex. “The bill would stop biological boys and men from playing in women’s sports,” Mulkey said in her opening remarks. Senator Charles Peake offered a similar bill, Senate Bill 1079, limited to the K–12 level.
Proponents who testified said the bills are meant to protect female…
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