The New Hampshire Senate heard testimony on the topic today for one hour and 15 minutes. The Senate Education Committee heard passionate testimony about how the biological sex of student athletes should factor into school sports. “This bill, as far as I’m concerned, harms children,” Nashua State Senator Kevin Avard is the prime sponsor of Senate Bill 375, which requires sports teams to expressly be designated as male, female, or coed and prohibits biologically male students from participating in female sports or entering female locker rooms. “Women will compete against women, men against men.”
The bill covers public school sports in New Hampshire. 17 people testified. Aside from Senator Avard, only one other person was in favor of the bill. “Not everyone makes a team. There are cut teams, and so when you find out that you didn’t get that spot because a biological male was allowed to, that is not right.”
15 people testified against the bill. “Using the power of the state to keep girls out of these, literally life-changing activities is terrible.” Also, showing up against the bill, this Pembroke eighth grader who said she is transgender. “My name is Iris, and I’m a female,” Iris told the committee. She has a court order identifying her as a female. “I try to use the girls’ locker room, but because legally I’m a female, but these proposed laws say that me and my school could get sued for having a trans girl on girls’ teams or in girls’ bathrooms or girls’ locker rooms,” and the committee will…
