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Minnesota’s house He could not approve the “girl preserving sports law” weeks after the executive order of President Donald Trump to ban biological men to compete in sports of women and girls.
HF12 I needed 68 votes from the House of Representatives For approval, but the bill fell short with 67 votes affirmative to 66 negative votes.
The law declared that “only students can participate in an athletic team or sport of primary or secondary level that an educational institution has restricted women and girls.”
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A person agitates a flag of transgender pride during the march of the town and is handled to the Memorial Lincoln in Washington, DC, United States, on January 18, 2025. (Nathan Morris/Nurphoto through Getty Images)
“The woman means a woman as a biologically determined by genetics and defined with respect to the reproductive system of an individual.” The bill mentions.
A demonstration of followers and opponents was seen in the Capitol, while waiting for the final vote.
The Chamber of Representatives of Minnesota had an “emotional discussion” before the bill was finally voted, and the state republican representative Peggy Scott, who sponsored the act, was one of those who spoke.
“We cannot allow our girls to be vulnerable to lose their place in the team, to be on the podium or the injuries by a teammate or male competitor,” he said. “That is not safe and that is not fair for our girls.”
“We have women and girls around the world who are so afraid to compete with the biological men who are abandoning sports,” added Republican state representative Marion Rarick in support of the bill, referring to a United Nations report on violence against women and girls.
However, the opponents of the bill indicated trans discrimination in their arguments.
“All children deserve to play,” said Democratic State Representative Brion Curran, president of Caucus Legislators de Minnesota. “We will not be complacent with this hateful and dangerous anti-trans rhetoric.”
President Donald Trump signed the “No Men In Women’s Sports” executive on February 5, 2025. (AP/IMAGN)
Democratic state representative, Liish Kozlowski, added that the law was “a bill to intimidate trans girls and non -binary boys.”
While this heated debate was happening, the Senate voted on Monday in a bill that prohibits Trans athletes in women’s sports. The bill did not obtain the necessary 60 votes, which means that at least seven Democrats did not vote yes.
Last month, Trump’s executive order ordered the Department of Education to inform school systems, as well as universities, to force girls and women to compete with transgender women is a violation of title IX.
After signing the order, the NCAA reviewed its own traffic athletes in women’s sports, although the review has been seen as controversial by some.
Despite the Executive Order, the Minnesota State High School League announced that it would continue to allow trans athletes to participate in girls’ sports, arguing that the Minnesota Human Rights Law and its state constitution consider them eligible.
The speaker of the Melissa Hortman Chamber (Brooklyn Park-36B) leads a session of the Minnesota state legislator in the Capitol of the State of Minnesota in St. Paul on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. (Getty images)
However, the United States Attorney General, Pam Bondi, wrote a letter at the end of last month warning the consequences of not approveing the “Girls preservative Sports Law.”
“The Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education has begun an investigation of the Title IX on the Secondary School League of the State of Minnesota,” said Bondi’s letter. “If the investigation of the Department of Education shows that the relevant entities of Minnesota are denying girls the same opportunity to participate in sporting and athletic events by demanding that they compete against children, the Department of Justice is ready to take all appropriate measures to enforce federal law.”
State Democratic Representative Leigh Finke said there is no trans problem in the United States.
“Minnesota has been inclusive for 10 years. We have had zero problems,” said Finke. “But we are doing this for political reasons. And when you lie about a community for enough time, people will believe it.”
Democrats in the Chamber of Minnesota voted the bill.
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Republican state representative Peggy Bennett saw it completely differently.
“This bill is about equity, security and preservation of girls’ sports in Minnesota.”
If the bill had approved in the Chamber on Monday, it would not have yet been signed by Governor Tim Walz, a firm defender of transgender rights that were expected to be vetoed.
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