Montana governor approves restrictions on transgender athletes in schools
From THEHILL.COM
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) on Friday signed into law a bill banning transgender girls from female sports teams at state schools.
The legislation is the latest in a series of bills passed or proposed in GOP-led states seeking to restrict participation in sports based on biological sex.
The Montana bill, also known as the Save Women’s Sports Act, requires that “public school athletic teams” at elementary schools, high schools or universities must be “designated based on biological sex.”
The legislation specifies that teams must be explicitly characterized as for male players, for female players or co-ed and that “athletic teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls may not be open to students of the male sex.”
CNN, Fox News and other news outlets reported the signing Friday, though Gianforte’s office did not publicize the approval as it did for other measures approved this week on tax cuts in the state.
Gianforte also did not publicize his signing last week of Senate Bill 280, which states that transgender residents can change the sex on their birth certificate only after providing proof of gender confirmation surgery.
The Hill has reached out to Gianforte’s office for comment.
The laws come as dozens of state legislatures across the U.S. have proposed measures targeting transgender people, including ones restricting their participation in sports over arguments from Republicans that doing so will maintain a level playing field for cisgender girls participating in school sports.
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