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House adopts Riley Gaines Act limiting participation in female sports; bill draws hours of debate
Summary
The Georgia House passed Senate Bill 1, known in debate as the Riley Gaines Act, after several hours of floor debate on competitive fairness and protections for transgender students. The bill passed on a 100-64 vote following committee amendments and a lengthy series of questions from members on both sides of the aisle.
The Georgia House passed Senate Bill 1 — the measure described in debate as the Riley Gaines Act — after several hours of discussion and questions from members on both sides of the chamber. Representative Bonner, who carried the bill on the floor, framed it as “a narrowly tailored common sense bill” intended to “maintain fairness in female athletics.”
The bill would require public and participating private schools and postsecondary institutions to designate teams as male, female or coed based on biological sex and prohibits males from competing on female teams, with limited exceptions where no female team…
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