Michigan votes to urge ban on trans athletes against girls; Dems get backlash from LGBTQ+ advocates

The Michigan House of Representatives voted connected a solution to impulse the Michigan High School Athletic Association to travel President Donald Trump's enforcement bid and prohibition transgender athletes from competing successful girls' and women's sports.

"Allowing biologic males to vie successful women's sports successful defiance of a national enforcement bid could enactment pistillate athletes successful Michigan astatine hazard for injury, threatens the information and fairness of competitions and undermines the intent of Title IX," the solution read, via the Detroit Free Press.

Sixty-six radical voted successful favour of the solution arsenic opposed to 43 nays; 8 of the yays were Democrats, who person been criticized by LGBTQ+ advocates.

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The exterior of the State Capitol successful Lansing. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"The displacement successful however Democrats are positioning themselves connected issues concerning trans rights is troubling," said Equality Michigan enforcement manager Erin Knott connected Thursday. "It's clip to enactment decisively to instrumentality a steadfast basal and to marque it wide we volition combat to support the LGBTQ+ assemblage nary substance what, and unluckily we're not seeing that aforesaid vigor that we did adjacent conscionable past year."

"We each privation sports to beryllium fair, and pupil athletes to beryllium safe," Knott added. "That’s wherefore the MHSAA already has rules astir who tin enactment successful antithetic sports astatine antithetic levels crossed a scope of issues. They already person a process successful spot and are experts erstwhile it comes to sports successful schools. They don’t request politicians successful Lansing to override their expertise with a one-size-fits-all broad ban."

Added Jerron Totten, who runs the party's LGBT & Allies Caucus, "There are truthful galore different issues that are much pressing, much concerning, much alarming than trans kids playing sports. And I deliberation we arsenic voters are looking for legislators that volition code those issues and not scapegoat marginalized communities."

"The Democratic Party chose a antithetic mode than what we usually would deliberation they would," said Jeffrey Pienela, the president of Muskegon Pride, an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization. 

"It’s surprising. It’s astir like, who has your backmost erstwhile neither enactment does?" 

President Donald Trump acknowledges erstwhile Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines earlier signing the No Men successful Women's Sports Executive Order into instrumentality successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected February 5, 2025.  (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

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One Democrat, Rep. Emily Dievendorf, spoke arsenic to wherefore she had voted for the resolution.

"I privation you to deliberation astir what it means to beryllium a kid. Figuring retired who you are trying to find a spot to belong. Learning assurance done the enactment of your peers and mentors. . . . Now imagine, alternatively being told by adults, by your ain authorities that you are the problem. That playing sports, making friends and being yourself is wrong. That the assemblage meant to enactment you, instead, is determined to erase you.

"I cognize what it is to beryllium a queer kid, and it is lonely. I cognize what it is to beryllium our nonbinary legislator, and it is isolating and dehumanizing. This solution isn't astir fairness. It isn't astir protecting women's sports. This isn't astir safety, due to the fact that determination is nary threat. There is nary threat."

However, Rep. Alabas Farhat, a Democrat who went against the bulk of her enactment successful the vote, offered an alternative.

"We privation to marque definite there's a just situation . . . to vie in. And I'll conscionable beryllium honest, that's wherever it comes from for me. Folks successful my district, definitely, I think, hold with that sentiment. . . ." Rep. Alabas Farhat said. "I would similar america prioritizing conversations astir affordability, astir housing. I would similar those conversations to beryllium astatine the forefront alternatively of resolutions similar this. But you know, again, for me, it's an contented of fairness and my territory has precise beardown opinions connected this stuff."

President Donald Trump joined by women athletes signs the "No Men successful Women’s Sports" enforcement bid successful the East Room astatine the White House connected February 5, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. The enforcement order, which Trump signed connected National Girls and Women successful Sports Day, prohibits transgender women from competing successful women’s sports and is the 3rd bid helium has signed that targets transgender people. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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The Department of Education has launched Title IX investigations against 3 states - California, Minnesota, and Maine - for not adhering to the order. The USDA stopped national backing to Maine arsenic a result, which Trump threatened.

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