Why should any Pennsylvania youth be left out?



Friend –

After years of focusing on restrooms and locker rooms, opponents of TLGBQ+ equality have shifted strategy to focus on excluding trans youth, particularly trans girls, from activities like sports that affirm their sense of self.

At last count, over 800 anti-trans laws have been proposed in 49 states in 2025.

Last week, Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee members joined the fray by voting on SB-9, <[link removed]> a bill that would ban transgender girls from participating in school athletics, sending this discriminatory Bill to the Senate floor for consideration.

Will you contact your state senator and urge them to speak up for trans youth and oppose S.B 9? <[link removed]>

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These attacks represent a coordinated campaign to push trans people out of public life.

Research also consistently shows that participation in activities benefits students emotionally and academically. At the same time, these types of attacks on transgender and non-binary youth have become all too common and have devastating impacts on mental health. Athletics gives trans youth a sense of belonging and inclusion.

Bills like SB-9 are based on inaccurate and harmful beliefs about transgender people and intentionally misrepresent the impact of trans athletes' participation in sports. Two dozen national women's rights organizations oppose such bills, which attempt to pit cisgender athletes against trans athletes and fail to address real challenges facing women and girls in sports.

Discriminating against trans students isn't just immoral. It's also unconstitutional.

Thanks so much for taking action. <[link removed]>

Naiymah Sanchez
Pronouns: She, her, hers
Senior Organizer, ACLU of Pennsylvania


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