Wisconsin’s state Assembly advanced legislation that would ban men from competing against women in sports and outlaw sex changes for children.
In a nearly party-line vote on Thursday, three bills passed Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled lower chamber 63-35, sending the measures to the state Senate.
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Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) has already vowed to veto the bills, and Republicans do not have enough members to override.
“If you go back in history, the way to treat mental illness 50 to 100 years ago was a lobotomy. And at the time, that was settled science. That was just the way it was supposed to be,” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said. “We can go back to example after example after example where the human mind has been opened to say there are different ways of doing things and it shouldn’t necessarily be a one-size-fits-all solution because we have settled science.”
Two of three bills would block men who identify as female in high school and college from competing in women’s sports, requiring them to compete as men, per their biological sex.
The third bill bans doctors from prescribing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital surgeries to children below the age of 18
Democrats chided Republicans for the move, with state Rep. Lee Snodgrass saying, “The fact that legislators are creating an environment that pushes specific groups of children out of existence and sports teams in service to a political agenda is objectively terrible, it’s discriminatory and it’s cruel.”
Evers said, “We continue to see harmful anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in Wisconsin—rhetoric that emboldens hate and violence and that we know only hurts our kids who are already facing significant mental health challenges.”
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While many activist organizations and the American medical establishment push heavily to make medical gender transitions for children legal as early as possible, many Western European countries have sounded the alarm on the transition model because of its lack of evidence, experimental nature, and safety issues.
A growing number of states have passed similar legislation, both prohibiting men in women’s sports and transgender medical interventions. Despite that, some have been halted in court, and others have pending lawsuits citing violations of the equal protection clause.
