The bill has been called a “poster child for bad legislation” by the conservative-leaning Deseret News. That’s the bill’s true intention: to stoke fear and division.

There will be, and has already been, much pearl clutching and virtue signaling about protecting cis-girls from being washed away in the inevitable, proverbial flood of trans-kids sure to start participating in sports. It will, however, signal to an entire community of trans-youth that they are not welcome and do not belong. The bill’s sponsor and its supporters claim that the bill is designed to protect the integrity and fairness in girls sports.īut allow me to repeat: the bill will affect one single trans-person from participating in girls sports.

Of more than 75,000 student athletes in the state, the bill effectively takes aim at one single transgender individual who has participated in girls sports. The bill bars transgender youth from participating in girls K-12 sports. Utah state House Bill 11, which will likely override a gubernatorial veto in a special session on Friday, is similar in its legislative attack on a vulnerable community. The all-star game returned to Charlotte in 2019, after North Carolina repealed the bill. In 2017 the NBA moved the all-star game from Charlotte to New Orleans in objection of North Carolina’s passage of the state’s House Bill 2, which limited anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the state. There is precedent for the league taking such action. Salt Lake City is going to lose the All-star game in 2023, and the NBA will be right to move the event out of a state whose legislature has doubled down on inequitable participation in sports.

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