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Ohio Thinks Requiring That Getting Your Kid's Genitals Checked To 'Own The Libs' Is Totally Fine And Okay

Great pass on the field, Michael. By the way, are you passing for anything else?

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happy-Hispanic-Latina-schoolchildren-student-300×200Kids just want to be kids. Go to school, ignore math to watch the new TikTok dance trend, the usual — maybe join a team as an extracurricular hobby. But Ohio lawmakers decided to sneak in a quick hurdle to entry.

House Republican lawmakers in Ohio passed a bill at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday night that would ban transgender girls and women from participating in high school and college athletics. It also comes with a “verification process” of checking the genitals of those “accused” of being trans.

The ‘Save Women’s Sports Act,’ or House Bill 61, wasn’t supposed to be on the schedule for legislators originally. However, at the last minute, Republican representatives added the language to a completely different bill.

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“I struggle to understand why we keep discussing bills focusing on children’s genitals,” she said.

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If someone is suspected to be transgender, she must go through evaluations of her external and internal genitalia, testosterone levels and genetic makeup.

Not to be crabby, but I channeled Mr. Krabs immediately after reading this.

This is super strange coming from the people who oppose transgender bathroom bills with “think of the children” rhetoric. Y’all do realize that giving literally anyone the authority to force a doctor to check and see if Sarah is hiding a set of testicles before they can play ball is a greenlight for bullying, yes? It’s already bad enough for trans kids as is. There are already rules in play that safeguard against the boogeyman threat of the TransUberCompetitor™ that will dominate teenage sports competitions. But before we get bogged down with hyperventilating about the theoretical threat trans kids pose to “fair” competition for merely being who they are, let’s look at the actual landscape. Ohio only had one known trans child competing in the 2021-2022 school year. Second, let’s not act like the discrimination would end after students get their privates verified by a doctor — all sorts of rules and norms get thrown out the window whenever minority students excel at their craft.

I know pedagogical concerns can differ, especially when it comes to lawmaking, but I personally would be more focused on passing laws that deal with Ohio children making threats to shoot up schools instead of worrying about a possible world where a 7’1″ transwoman competes against your child. This isn’t hyperbole  — a man is quoted sharing that as a concern in the article. Instead, imagine if we used our 7’1″ intellects to come up with a response to mass school shootings that makes more sense than arming teachers because, as the brilliant 15-year-old Katherine Hiland put so eloquently, “[m]ore guns in schools only increases the access that students have to guns… And I would know best. I’m a teenager. We get up to a lot of trouble even when we don’t mean to.”

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GOP passes bill aiming to root out ‘suspected’ transgender female athletes with genital inspection [News5Cleveland]

Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.  He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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