High school athletes in Georgia will now have to compete in sports based on their gender assigned at birth, the state’s governing body of athletics unanimously voted.
“Following my signature on HB 1084, the Georgia High School Association today voted to protect fairness in school sports by unanimously approving youth to compete according to the sex determined on his/her birth certificate,” Kemp tweeted.Previously, in bylaw 1.47 of the GHSA, the association stated “The GHSA will honor a gender determination made by a member school. The GHSA will not make gender identity determinations nor entertain appeals of the member school’s determination.
In a statement sent to News4JAX from the Democratic Party of Georgia, spokesperson Max Flugrath said the decision was a classic case of “extreme partisan politics” that will hurt children. “Brian Kemp’s use of state-sanctioned bullying of Georgia’s trans youth as a campaign strategy is unconscionable. By paving the way and pushing for this hateful policy, Kemp is showing that he doesn’t care about Georgians — he’ll always put extreme partisan politics and his political career over our best interests, even if it means hurting our kids and dividing our communities.
There are similar bills to allow or to block transgender athletes currently in motion across the countryThere is no federal law on transgender athletes that applies uniformly across the country. Instead, states can determine what happens.Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 1028 into law on June 1, 2021, on the campus of Trinity Christian Academy in JacksonvilleThat law overrode the existing policy of the Florida High School Athletic Association, which had been in place since 2013-14.
The FHSAA said when DeSantis signed that bill into law that all 11 athletes had been approved to play.
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