Posted on Apr 18, 2022

LGBTQ protections languish while Missouri lawmakers push transgender sports bans

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Missouri law doesn’t prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Efforts to change that have failed for 24 years.
On one end of the Missouri Capitol last week, Sen. Greg Razer was making yet another unsuccessful attempt to convince his colleagues to enact legal protections in state law for LGBTQ Missourians.

“I’m still perceived as controversial,” Razer, a Kansas City Democrat who is one of just six openly LGBTQ lawmakers in the legislature and the only member in the Senate, said last week on the Senate floor.

Hours later across the rotunda in the House, Rep. Chuck Basye, R-Rocheport, was advancing a measure to allow voters to bar transgender girls from participating on girls’ sports teams in their school district.

LGBTQ protections languish while Missouri lawmakers push transgender sports bans

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LTC David Brown

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Why do people think it is OK to give men an unfair advantage over women in women’s sports? The British Sports Council says you can either have fairness or inclusion, you can’t have both.

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LTC David Brown

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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff - I already demonstrated that Thomas is dominant in swimming as a women. Thomas was ranked as 60th as a male swimmer, as a female swimmer he is setting records. I brought up the British sports council because the British Sports council actually conducted studies, you know, science.

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LTC David Brown

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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff -The British Sorts council found that transexuals have an unfair advantage. https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/sports-guidance/.

Inclusion or Fairness: New Guidance for Sport in the UK — Sex Matters

Sex Matters response to the Sports Council Equality Group Guidance on Transgender Inclusion. On September 30, the Sports Council Equality Group (SCEG), which is composed of members of the five major sports councils within the United Kingdom, published new guidance for UK National Governing Bodies and Sports Governing Bodies. The guidance is intended to support […]

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LTC David Brown

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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff - Trans women do have an advantage wether you recognize it or not and there are multiple studies that demonstrate that fact. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33289906/

Transgender Women in the Female Category of Sport: Perspectives on Testosterone Suppression and...

Males enjoy physical performance advantages over females within competitive sport. The sex-based segregation into male and female sporting categories does not account for transgender persons who experience incongruence between their biological sex and their experienced gender identity. Accordingly, …

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