Minnesota state lawmaker calls bill keeping males out of girls' sports 'state-sanctioned genocide'

A Minnesota authorities typical insisted that a measure keeping trans athletes retired of girls' and women's sports was "state-sanctioned genocide" during a proceeding connected Monday. 

During arguments for the Preserve Women’s Sports Act successful the Minnesota House of Representatives, Rep. Alicia Kozlowski, of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, made remarks that person since gone viral and incited backlash for her labeling of the measure arsenic "genocide."

"Members, marque nary mistake that this is conscionable different mentation of state-sanctioned bullying and genocide," Kozlowski said. "And I don't accidental that lightly." 

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Footage of Kozlowski's comments person dispersed crossed assorted societal media platforms, prompting harsh responses. 

One idiosyncratic connected X directed critics to the representative's illustration connected the level connected Monday.

However, by Tuesday afternoon, Kozlowski's X relationship had been deactivated. 

It is not adjacent the archetypal clip successful the past 2 weeks that a authorities Democrat lawmaker deactivated their X relationship aft facing backlash for an assertive propulsion to support trans inclusion successful girls' sports. 

Ryan Fecteau, the Maine House of Representatives' Democratic speaker, deleted his X relationship past Thursday, conscionable days aft censuring Republican Rep. Laurel Libby. 

Libby was censured by the Democratic bulk Tuesday evening for a caller societal media station pointing retired that a transgender precocious schoolhouse athlete won a girls' competition. The censure solution passed by a 75-70 ballot and revoked Libby's speaking and voting privileges.

Meanwhile, Fecteau's Facebook and Bluesky accounts were flooded with aggravated comments from users who condemned the censure, and supported Libby. 

And similar Fecteau, Kozlowski has been bombarded with aggravated comments connected her different societal media accounts that are inactive active. 

The astir caller station connected Kozlowski's Instagram relationship unsocial already has much comments than immoderate different station connected her profile. 

"You should look up the connection genocide and amended yourself earlier you usage it lightly," 1 idiosyncratic wrote. 

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Another idiosyncratic commented, "Why bash you hatred girls having just competition? Biological males 100% of the clip volition person an advantage… It's virtually successful their DNA, which can't beryllium changed. You cognize own, subject and each that."

Kozlowski was 1 of the 66 Democrats who voted against the bill, keeping it 1 ballot shy of reaching the indispensable 68-vote threshold for passage. 

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."

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

In opposition with Kozlowski, galore Republicans spoke successful favour of the ball, citing the tendency to support women's spaces from biologic males. 

"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," said authorities Rep. Peggy Scott. "That is not harmless and that is not just to our girls."

Former Minnesota Vikings subordinate Jack Brewer joined Riley Gaines astatine the Minnesota authorities Capitol connected Monday to enactment the bill. Brewer told Fox News Digital past week that helium believed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was "disgusting" for continuing to let biologic males successful girls' sports successful the state. 

"It's perfectly disgusting, and it's why, erstwhile you spot him and you spot his mannerisms and the mode helium carries himself, you cognize this feline doesn't entreaty to existent men and boys who person battled it retired connected the gridiron, man. I person thing successful communal with this guy," Brewer said. 

"I deliberation he's a disgrace to the shot satellite to beryllium honest." 

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The Minnesota authorities Capitol successful St. Paul (Google Earth)

The Minnesota State High School League is 1 of galore authorities scholastic conferences that announced it would proceed letting trans athletes enactment successful girls’ sports, defying President Donald Trump's caller enforcement bid to forestall it. 

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."

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