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Bill banning boys who say they’re girls from women’s sports passes Arizona House

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The Arizona House voted 31-29 Tuesday to pass legislation ensuring that female school athletes will only compete against other females rather than gender-confused boys who claim to be girls. House Bill 2706, the “Save Women's Sports Act,” would allow participants in high-school girls and college women’s athletics to dispute the biological sex of an athlete they suspect of actually being male, who would then have to produce a signed doctor’s statement confirming that genetic testing has identified them as female, CBS 5 reported. Accusers would also be shielded from retaliation. "Women are being displaced in their own sport. The playing field is no longer level," said Republican state Rep. Nancy Barto, the bill’s author. Calling the proposed requirement “cruel,” opponents of the bill claim it could open up transgender students to bullying – a charge Barto rejects. "I would say they're really not looking at the true motive of the bill. It's not singl...

Football players defend high-school coach fired over ‘insensitive’ LGBT language

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Members of a California high school football team are rallying to vouch for their former coach, who has been sacked for his coaching position after an outburst deemed “insensitive to the LGBTQ community.” San Luis Coastal Unified School District removed Morro Bay High School head varsity football coach David Kelley on Tuesday, The Tribune reports , following what Principal Kyle Pruitt called an “unfortunate, and unacceptable verbal interaction that was insensitive to the LGBTQ community between a coach/teacher and a student-athlete on our campus.” On October 24, Kelley got mad at a player who was procrastinating in a locker room and told him to “stop looking at me like a homosexual and get the [expletive] to practice,” according to senior varsity player Rocky Brebes. The student added it was the only instance he had ever witnessed Kelley using “homosexual” as a pejorative. Brebes also described a meeting with Kelley, Pruitt, and the team, in which Kelley claimed he was being replaced...