Dear Friend,
We had a very busy day today at the NC General
Assembly!
For three years, NC Values has been working on legislation that
would protect school girls from being forced to compete in sports
against transgenders who are biological males.
Today, we are excited to share with you that the NC House
passed—and the NC Senate advanced—our "Fairness in Women's Sports Act"
(HB 574, SB 631).
The "Fairness in Women's Sports" bill protects females from being
forced to play against biological males on sports teams, which can
leave females with injuries and cheats them out of equal
opportunities. At the General Assembly we were joined by sponsors of
the bill, and Riley Gaines, the Stand with Women Spokeswoman for
Independent Women’s Forum. Riley is a recent graduate from the
University of Kentucky, where she was a 12x All-American swimmer. She
has been lately featured across the news for her work advocating for
fairness in women’s sports after she experienced firsthand competing
against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. We were also joined by
high school senior Payton McNabb who was injured by a trans
identifying male last fall in a volleyball game at her high school in
Murphy, NC., former UNC Women’s Basketball Coach and Hall of Famer
Sylvia Hatchell, and former ACC referee and supervisor of referees,
Judy Stroud. Finally, Idaho legislator Barbara Ehardt shared her
expertise as the founder of the Save Women’s Sports
movement.
We wanted to express our deepest thanks for everything you did to
contact your legislators and ask them to vote for the bill.
They heard you!
Thanks to the work of bill sponsorsRepresentatives Jennifer Balkcom, Erin Pare, Kristin Baker and Senators Kevin Corbin,
Vickie Sawyer, Joyce Krawiec, and many others, the bill now
heads to the Senate tomorrow.
If you support the hard work NC Values is
doing getting pro-values bills like this one passed, would you
consider becoming a monthly supporter, or making a needed one-time
donation today?
In gratitude,
Tami & Team, NC Values
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