Alabama Governor Signs Law Protecting Female K-12 Athletes, Bans Biological Males From Competing With Them
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has signed a bill into law banning biological males from competing against girls in K-12 school sports.
The bill, signed on Friday, says that “no public K-12 school may participate in, sponsor, or provide coaching staff for interscholastic athletic events at which athletes are allowed to participate in competition against athletes who are of a different biological gender, unless the event specifically includes both biological genders.”
The law explains that “physical differences between biological males and biological females have long made separate and sex-specific sports teams important so that female athletes can have equal opportunities to compete in sports.”
“Physical advantages for biological males relevant to sports include, on average, a larger body size with more skeletal muscle mass,
