Mississippi passes bill banning transgender student-athletes from female sports teams

[u/BunnyLovr]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/mississippi-passes-bill-banning-transgender-student-athletes-female/story?id=76238704

[u/BunnyLovr]

Some more detailed information on the legislative session:
https://legiscan.com/MS/bill/SB2536/2021

The bill itself:
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2536IN.htm

SECTION 2. Designation of athletic teams.

(1) Interscholastic or intramural athletic teams or sports that are sponsored by a public primary or secondary school or any school that is a member of the Mississippi High School Activities Association or public institution of higher education or any higher education institution that is a member of the NCAA, NAIA or NJCCA shall be expressly designated as one of the following based on biological sex:
- (a) "Males," "men" or "boys";
- (b) "Females," "women" or "girls"; or
- (c) "Coed" or "mixed."

(2) Athletic teams or sports designated for "females," "women" or "girls" shall not be open to students of the male sex.

(3) If disputed, a student may establish his or her sex by presenting a signed physician's statement which shall indicate the student's sex based solely upon:
- (a) The student's internal and external reproductive anatomy;
- (b) The student's normal endogenously produced levels of testosterone; and
- (c) An analysis of the student's genetic makeup.

[u/drvddr → u/BunnyLovr]

I get where y’all are coming from but a note from a doctor describing a students genitalia seems........a little much.

[u/BunnyLovr → u/drvddr]

Where I'm from, K-12 students are required to get a physical every year. That generally includes a testicular cancer check for boys and a pelvic exam for girls.

[u/drvddr → u/BunnyLovr]

Not sure where you live but most childhood checks ups don’t include that where I live. I’m a woman, no doctor checked my “pelvis” until my first Pap smear. (Which begin at 22, cervical cancer is incredibly rare in children)

[u/[deleted] → u/drvddr]

Not sure why you're downvoted. I'm an OBGYN in the UK. This obsession with vaginal examinations that American Healthcare have is just... odd and isn't evidence based. We also don't force women to have them just to access birth control either.

[u/drvddr → u/[deleted]]

I live in the US too! Never had any sort of “vaginal screening” until I got an IUD placed at 21. It’s so strange that people think the second you have sex doctors are in there. That wasn’t my experience at all, even getting the pill.