* Connecting the Dots: “Women’s Work” and the Wage Gap
Denny Hoskins (r) [2022 file photo].
The first day of the legislative session of the Missouri General Assembly starts on January 4, 2023. Bill prefiling has commenced in Jefferson City.
A prefiled bill:
SB 2 Establishes the “Save Women’s Sports Act” relating to female-only athletics in middles schools, high schools, and collegesSponsor:
Hoskins
LR Number:0358S.01I
Last Action:12/1/2022 – Prefiled
Effective Date:August 28, 2023Current Bill Summary
SB 2 – This act establishes the “Save Women’s Sports Act.”
No athletic team or sport designated for biological females, as defined in the act, shall be open to students that are biological males, as defined in the act.
No governmental entity, licensing or accrediting organization, or athletic association or organization shall take any adverse action, as described in the act, against a school for maintaining
separate interscholastic or intramural athletic teams or sports for students that are biological females.
No public or private middle school or high school or a public or private institution of postsecondary education that has biological males playing biological female’s sports shall be eligible for money appropriated by the General Assembly.
This act is identical to SB 20 (1st Extra Session, 2022), SS/SCS/SB 781 (2022) and is similar to SB 503 (2021).
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The bill text:
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 2 [pdf]
102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLYINTRODUCED BY SENATOR HOSKINS.
0358S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, SecretaryAN ACT
To amend chapter 167, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to middle school, high
school, and college athletics.Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 167, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 167.780, to read as follows:
167.780. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Save Women’s Sports Act”.
2. No athletic team or sport designated for biological females shall be open to students that are biological males.
3. No governmental entity, licensing or accrediting organization, or athletic association or organization shall entertain a complaint, open an investigation, or take any other adverse action against a school or institution for maintaining separate interscholastic or intramural athletic teams or sports for students that are biological females.
4. No public school or a private middle school or high school, or a public or private institution of postsecondary education, that has biological males playing biological females’ sports shall be eligible for any moneys appropriated by the general assembly.
5. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall mean:
(1) “Biological females”, persons with the biological indicators of a female in the context of reproductive potential or capacity, such as the absence of a Y chromosome, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth, without regard to an individual’s psychological, chosen, or subjective experience of gender;
(2) “Biological males”, persons with the biological indicators of a male in the context of reproductive potential or capacity, such as the presence of a Y chromosome, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous external genitalia present at birth, without regard to an individual’s psychological, chosen, or subjective experience of gender.
“…No athletic team or sport designated for biological females shall be open to students that are biological males…”
Uh, what sports would that be? Just asking.
Right wingnut republican priorities…