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groundloop

(13,044 posts)
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 09:35 PM Jun 4

Nebraska is the latest state to ban transgender students from girls' sports

Source: ABC News

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen signed into law Wednesday a measure banning transgender students from girls’ sports, making the state the latest to keep transgender athletes from competing on women’s and girls’ teams.

Pillen signed the law flanked by dozens of lawmakers, women athletes and other advocates — including former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines, who has made a name for herself as a vocal advocate of banning transgender athletes from women’s sports.

The measure passed by the Nebraska Legislature last week broke a filibuster by a single vote cast along party lines. It was pared down from its initial form, which also sought to bar transgender students from using bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding with their gender identity.

Sponsors agreed to drop the bathroom and locker room ban when one Republican — Omaha Sen. Merv Riepe — declared he would vote against it otherwise.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/nebraska-latest-state-ban-transgender-students-girls-sports-122503076



Also in the article..... "FEWER THAN 10 TRANSGENDER STUDENTS HAVE PARTICIPATED IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS IN NEBRASKA OVER THE PAST DECADE" !!!!!!!

They're creating a solution to a non existent problem just to keep their pathetic voters stirred up.
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Nebraska is the latest state to ban transgender students from girls' sports (Original Post) groundloop Jun 4 OP
I take it thousands upon thousands of erstwhile males PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 4 #1
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It's deeply unpopular DenaliDemocrat Jun 5 #5
Democrats have no shortage of venues to voice opposition to trans people competing in sports based on gender identity. David__77 Jun 5 #6

PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. I take it thousands upon thousands of erstwhile males
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 09:55 PM
Jun 4

are claiming to be trans so as to participate in a woman's sport? Gosh, I had no idea.

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David__77

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6. Democrats have no shortage of venues to voice opposition to trans people competing in sports based on gender identity.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 09:08 AM
Jun 5

That is, if that’s their opinion.

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