Protesters say Utah’s transgender sports bill is an act of legislative ‘violence’

who want to play school sports aligning with their gender identity to first gain permission from an activities commission. The panel would evaluate students’ physical attributes — such as height, weight, flexibility, wingspan and hip-to-knee ratio — to determine eligibility.

According to the speakers, both pieces of legislation would have drastically negative — and even tragic — impacts on Utah’s LGBTQ community. They say members of the Legislature have presented the bills as a way of protecting people and preserving fairness, while at the same time denying trans people of both.

Many of the speakers’ comments were aimed at HB11, which is much further along in the legislative process than its counterpart. The bill passed the House and was approved in a Senate committee Thursday. It will now be considered on the Senate floor, its final hurdle before heading to the governor’s desk.

He said he doesn’t think the bill necessarily needs to list the physical characteristics that a commission would consider when evaluating a student’s eligibility for a sport, adding that the legislation “probably has some refining yet to do.” Multiple speakers on Friday also spoke to fears that HB11 and HB127 would open doors in the future to more extreme measures against the LGBTQ community.

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