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Dear Friends,
As a senior in high school in 1975, I had the great joy of experiencing the advent of girls’ sports in Minnesota with the enactment of Title IX. I got to participate in the very first girls’ only basketball team for my school. We girls were ecstatic! Never in a million years would I have dreamed that, fifty years later, I would witness the destruction of those very same girls’ sports in Minnesota.
Today’s Minnesota Supreme Court ruling, based on a new Minnesota “public accommodation” discrimination statute that was passed into law in by an all-Democrat led legislature and Governor Walz in 2023, states that males who consider themselves a different gender have the right to compete on female teams. The Minnesota Supreme Court and this commonsense defying Minnesota statute have essentially eliminated girls’ sports in Minnesota.
This is a sad day for Minnesota girls and women.
Allowing biological males with a different sense of gender to compete as females against young women and girls destroys the fundamental concept of what makes athletic competition fair and safe. It is a biological fact that males have a distinct and superior physical and biological advantage over females. That’s the very reason Title IX created girls’ only sports teams.
My House Republican colleagues and I saw this coming and attempted multiple times to clarify this Minnesota statute last session. Sadly, House Democrats blocked those efforts every time. I will continue to fight for these commonsense changes. We must come together in a bipartisan way to protect the future of girls’ sports!
Talk to you soon,
Peggy
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