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A Minnesota lawmaker is likening a bill that would prohibit trans-identified males from competing in women’s sports to an act of “genocide” aimed at “erasing” those who do not identify as male or female.
As the Republican-controlled Minnesota House of Representatives debated House File 12, also known as the Preserving Girls’ Sports Act, Democratic state Rep. Alicia Kozlowski gave a speech denouncing the legislation. Kozlowski insisted that the measure was “a bill to bully trans and non-binary kids” that was “not about fairness in sports” but rather “about erasing trans girls, non-binary and two-spirit kids and people from public life.”
“They aren’t going to stop being transgender just because you strip them from sports or from housing or from their healthcare or any other public place that you don’t want us to be,” the lawmaker asserted on the House floor Monday. “Make no mistake that this is just another version of state-sponsored bullying and genocide.”
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As the Republican-controlled Minnesota House of Representatives debated House File 12, also known as the Preserving Girls’ Sports Act, Democratic state Rep. Alicia Kozlowski gave a speech denouncing the legislation. Kozlowski insisted that the measure was “a bill to bully trans and non-binary kids” that was “not about fairness in sports” but rather “about erasing trans girls, non-binary and two-spirit kids and people from public life.”
“They aren’t going to stop being transgender just because you strip them from sports or from housing or from their healthcare or any other public place that you don’t want us to be,” the lawmaker asserted on the House floor Monday. “Make no mistake that this is just another version of state-sponsored bullying and genocide.”
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Minnesota lawmaker likens bill to protect women's sports to 'genocide'
A Minnesota lawmaker is likening a bill that would prohibit trans-identified males from competing in women s sports to an act of genocide aimed at erasing those who do not identify as male or female