Minnesota House fails to pass bill banning trans athletes from participating in women's sports

The Minnesota House failed to walk the "Preserving Girls’ Sports Act" weeks aft President Donald Trump's enforcement bid to prohibition biologic males from competing successful women's and girls sports.

HF12 needed 68 House votes for passage, but the measure fell 1 ballot abbreviated with 67 affirmative votes to 66 antagonistic votes.

The enactment stated that "only pistillate students whitethorn enactment successful an simple oregon secondary schoolhouse level diversion squad oregon athletics that an acquisition instauration has restricted to women and girls."

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A idiosyncratic waves a transgender pridefulness emblem during the People's March and rally to the Lincoln Memorial successful Washington, D.C., United States, connected January 18, 2025.  (Nathan Morris/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"Female means a pistillate arsenic biologically determined by genetics and defined with respect to an individual’s reproductive system," the measure mentions. 

A rally of supporters and opponents was seen astatine the Capitol, arsenic they awaited the last vote.  

The Minnesota House had immoderate "emotional discussion" earlier the measure was yet voted on, and Republican authorities Rep. Peggy Scott, who sponsored the act, was among those who spoke. 

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"We cannot let our girls to beryllium susceptible to losing their spot connected the team, being connected the podium, oregon to wounded by a antheral teammate oregon antheral competitor," she said. "That is not harmless and that is not just to our girls."

"We person women and girls astir the satellite that are truthful acrophobic of competing with biologic men that they are dropping retired of sports," Republican authorities Rep. Marion Rarick added successful enactment of the bill, referencing a 2024 United Nations study connected unit against women and girls. 

However, opponents of the measure pointed to trans favoritism successful their arguments. 

"All children merit to play," Democratic authorities Rep. Brion Curran, the Minnesota Queer Legislators Caucus chair, said. "We volition not beryllium complacent with this hateful and unsafe anti-trans rhetoric."

President Donald Trump signed the "No Men successful Women's Sports" enforcement oder connected Feb. 5, 2025. (AP/IMAGN)

Democratic authorities Rep. Liish Kozlowski added that the enactment was "a measure to bully trans girls and non-binary kids."

While this heated statement was going on, the Senate voted connected Monday connected a measure banning trans athletes from competing successful women’s sports. The measure didn’t get the 60 votes needed to spell through, which means astatine slightest 7 Democrats didn’t ballot yes. 

Trump’s enforcement bid past period directed the Education Department to pass schoolhouse systems, arsenic good arsenic colleges, that forcing girls and women to vie with transgender females is simply a usurpation of Title IX. 

After the bid was signed, the NCAA revised its ain argumentation connected trans athletes successful women’s sports, though the revision has been seen arsenic controversial by some. 

Despite the enforcement order, the Minnesota State High School League announced it would proceed letting trans athletes enactment successful girls’ sports, arguing that the Minnesota Human Rights Act and their authorities constitution deem them eligible.

Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman (Brooklyn Park-36B) leads a league of the Minnesota State Legislator astatine the Minnesota State Capitol successful St. Paul connected Tuesday, April 14, 2020.  (Getty Images)

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, though, wrote a missive precocious past period informing of the consequences of not passing the "Preserving Girls’ Sports Act."

"The Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has begun a Title IX probe into the Minnesota State High School League," the missive from Bondi read. "If the Department of Education's probe shows that applicable Minnesota entities are so denying girls an adjacent accidental to enactment successful sports and diversion events by requiring them to vie against boys, the Department of Justice stands acceptable to instrumentality each due enactment to enforce national law."

State Democratic Rep. Leigh Finke said a trans jock contented successful the United States doesn’t exist. 

"Minnesota has been inclusive for 10 years. We’ve had zero problems," Finke said. "But we are doing this for governmental reasons. And erstwhile you prevarication astir a assemblage for agelong enough, radical volition judge it."

Democrats successful the Minnesota House voted the measure down.

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Republican authorities Rep. Peggy Bennett saw it wholly differently. 

"This measure is astir fairness, information and preserving girls sports successful Minnesota."

If the measure were to person passed successful the House connected Monday, it inactive wouldn't person been signed by Gov. Tim Walz, a beardown advocator for transgender rights who was expected to veto it.

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