![]() ![]() Stephen Miller, Trump’s former senior adviser for policy, recently told Politico that he believes campaigning on the issue of trans women in sports will help Republicans win the 2022 midterm elections. “Women’s sports as we know it will die,” he warned, if transgender women and girls are allowed to compete. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, Trump showed his support for bills like Mississippi’s. Lindsay Hecox, who would like to run for Boise State's cross-country team, is part of a lawsuit challenging an Idaho law that would prevent her from doing so. Experts say that these types of examinations or tests could be traumatic for children, whether they are trans or incorrectly identified by competitors as being trans. ![]() The Mississippi law does not specify a method, but the Idaho law, like many other bills, indicates that students could confirm their gender by getting a genetics test confirming XX chromosomes, a test showing their natural hormones fall within a certain range or a genital exam by a doctor. Particularly dangerous are the components of the laws-both proposed and newly enacted-that govern how school districts should handle any “challenge” of someone’s gender. I want them to be able to experience it during and after their transitions. “I got to experience it prior to my transition. “What I am hoping for is that trans youth get the same thing, that they get to experience that joy, that they get to experience the things that I got to experience,” says Zooey Zephyr, a 32-year-old trans woman in Montana who was a state-ranked wrestler in her high school. ![]()
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