Just two days left in the 2024 legislative session,
and late this afternoon, the state Senate passed a bill
that would ban biological males from playing girl.
Sports fox house Deidre Dukes is live at the state
Capitol with the day's new developments.
Deidre.
Hello Tom Republicans insisting today that this bill simply protects
girls rights,
But Democrats argued against the bill,
saying that it would marginalized,
isolate, and endanger transgender students.
Are extremely unhappy about the Senate's action today and we
really hope that the House of Representatives will not take
this issue up before the end of session.
Reaction from lawmakers following heated debate on the Senate floor,
House Bill 1104 passed along party lines over the objection
of Senate Democrats.
The revised bill bans biological males from participating in girls
sports at Georgia public schools and would prohibit schools from
allowing individuals to use restaurants and locker rooms that are
different from their biological sex.
You know, women have fought for 50 years for for
it to have equal pay,
you know all across the board and dealing with sports
as well and and to compete,
you know at at the high school level and then
at the collegiate level.
And now we're going to claw that back because biological
males.
Want to compete in girls sports?
I just, you know, I think that you know that
that's absurd,
that we've got to protect girls sports.
Republican lawmakers insist the legislation protects women's sports in grades
K through 12.
The amended bill also requires parents have access to their
child's school records,
requires they receive e-mail notifications when their child checks books
out of the school library and prohibits schools from teaching
sex Ed before 6th grade.
The bill also allows parents to review material beforehand.
It is a sort of a tyranny of the minority,
and Democrats today took a position against the bills because
we think that they're harmful.
We think that they will lead to increased harassment and
even violence potentially against LGBTQ youth.
And the bill now goes to the House for consideration
at the state Capitol.
Deidre Dukes. Fox 5 News.
Deidre. Thanks.