The Washington legislator draws parallels between racial segregation and trans prohibitions
Thursday a legislator in Washington compared a revolt legislation prohibit transgender athletes From women and female sports in the state to racial segregation in the United States, claiming that those through the corridor are “making many of the same topics today”.
Democratic State of Washington Rep. Kristine Reeves Thursday morning I spoke during an executive session of the Chamber’s education committee in which the members of the Committee introduced SB 5123, a bill that aimed to expand the protections for students, including gender expression and gender identity.
File – The state representative Kristine Reeves, a Democrat of Washington, speaks during a round weapon security table in Seattle, Washington, Friday 27 September 2019. (Chona Cousin/Bloomberg via Gettty Images)
“I remember a moment in the history of our country not long ago … in which it was said that people like my grandfather could not participate in sports activities because he was a man of color,” said Reeves following an amendment proposed to The account.
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“I remember a moment in the history of our country, Madam Chair, in which people like my grandfather and my great-grandfather were not authorized to participate in processes and places in our society because of the color of their skin because the people-generations-to have told our society that blacks were less than human, that blacks were animals, that blacks did not have the brain capacity to compete with white Americans.”
Reeves said that similar to the scientific studies provided that have supported an unfair physical advantage for trans athletes in women’s sports, people “also generated sciences to force people to believe in the topic that my father, my grandfather, my grandmother, my great -grandparents were less than our society”.
“We are repeating the story, Mrs. Speaker, in this debate and is very, very frightening for me that we are making many of the same topics today on this subset of our population to which my grandfather, my grandmother and my grandparents had to be subjected for years, which were said that they were less than, that they did not deserve the same rights as other people due to the color of their skin.”
Republican legislators At the meeting of the Committee he did not agree with the statement of Reeves, including his observations that “we have the ability to evolve”.
The President of the United States Donald Trump, reached by athletes women, signs the executive order “No Men in Women’s Sports” in the East Room to the White House on February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“This particular amendment is focused on athletic participation and something that does not change is bone density, lung capacity and the ability that a male has against a female,” he contrasted the representative Michael Keaton. “There have already been too many stories this year that the females have been injured, or the females who work throughout their lives to achieve a goal and in order to be successful in something, dedicate their life to it, and then a male changes categories and takes everything away from them.”
The representative Travis Couture echoed to that feeling, adding that the amendment of the bill “does not concern the black eye in the history of our racial relationships”.
“I don’t consider it in evolution, in reality,” he added. “I don’t think it is a misinformed discussion on my part or on my side to say that our opinion is that we are actually transforming ourselves for a time before the IX title, once before women had rights in this country, once before the girls could actually go and compete in sport with other girls without having to risk being injured or being school injuries or other opportunities robbed by them.”
“We are going back in history, not forward.”
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month who required entities that receive federal funding to align with the IX title, which the Trump administration changed last month to recognize the protections on the basis of biological sex, canceling the rewriting of the former president Joe Biden.
The president of the United States Donald Trump asks a question by a journalist during a press conference in the Roosevelt room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The Trump administration has entered several states that have openly refused to conform, pushing the federal financing to be pulled. In particular, the administration made a break $ 175 million in federal funding to University of Pennsylvania After the Department of Education has launched an investigation into the university for potential violations of the IX title.
The pause in the loan was not the direct result of the investigations, which means that the Ivy League school could bear to lose more in federal funding.
At the state level, the Maine officials were the most straightforward of the refusal to respect the federal law, resulting forward and forth between the State and the Trump administration.
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