Daily Wire host Matt Walsh will testify Tuesday before the California State Assembly in favor of a bill that would ban males from girls’ sports and bathrooms in public schools, reversing a decade-old law in the blue state.
A Republican lawmaker introduced Assembly Bill 844, which would require participation in school sports and bathroom and locker use to be based on a student’s sex, not gender identity. The bill would apply to both public K-12 schools as well as public colleges. The bill would reverse California’s 2014 law allowing students to play on the sports teams and use the facilities “consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil’s records.”
Walsh is set to address a hearing of the California Assembly’s Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Tourism on Tuesday.
“Girls shouldn’t have to compete with boys or change next to them in locker rooms — this isn’t complicated,” Walsh said in a statement ahead of the hearing.
“Even Gavin Newsom, after sniffing the political wind, now admits it’s unfair — let’s see if California Democrats can stop playing pretend and follow his sudden rediscovery of basic truth,” Walsh added.
On his new podcast, the California governor shocked his fellow Democrats by calling biological men competing in women’s sports “deeply unfair.”
Newsom was asked by his conservative guest Charlie Kirk whether he would “say no to men in female sports.”
“I think it’s an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that,” Newsom answered. “It is an issue of fairness — it’s deeply unfair.”
However, back in 2014 when Newsom was lieutenant governor, he celebrated California’s new law allowing trans-identifying male students to compete in girls’ sports. He celebrated again when conservative groups failed to repeal that law.
Newsom has not spoken about Assembly Bill 844, and Democrats are expected to kill the bill after the committee hearing.
The bill was introduced by Rep. Bill Essayli, a Republican. Essayli slammed California Democrats ahead of Tuesday’s hearing, saying he expects them to reject his bill.
“I believe the Democrats will double down and reject this bill tomorrow,” Essayli told Fox News. “They want to make a public scene out of it so they can be heroes to their progressive base.”
Female athletes in California, including Taylor Starling, a high school cross-country runner in Riverside who lost her spot on the varsity team to a trans-identifying transfer student, have faced unfair competition from male students who identify as female.
On Friday, Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent Newsom a letter noting his shifting position and warning him to comply with federal law on prohibiting male students in girls’ sports and bathrooms or risk losing federal funding.
In recent years, gender ideology in public schools has faced fierce backlash from parents and other critics across the nation who point to both privacy and safety dangers with having males on the playing field and in bathrooms with girls.
Meanwhile, female athletes have lost nearly 900 medals to males who identify as transgender, according to a recent United Nations report.
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Daily Wire host Matt Walsh will testify Tuesday before the California State Assembly in favor of a bill that would ban males from girls’ sports and bathrooms in public schools, reversing a decade-old law in the blue state.
A Republican lawmaker introduced Assembly Bill 844, which would require participation in school sports and bathroom and locker use to be based on a student’s sex, not gender identity. The bill would apply to both public K-12 schools as well as public colleges. The bill would reverse California’s 2014 law allowing students to play on the sports teams and use the facilities “consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil’s records.”
Walsh is set to address a hearing of the California Assembly’s Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Tourism on Tuesday.
“Girls shouldn’t have to compete with boys or change next to them in locker rooms — this isn’t complicated,” Walsh said in a statement ahead of the hearing.
“Even Gavin Newsom, after sniffing the political wind, now admits it’s unfair — let’s see if California Democrats can stop playing pretend and follow his sudden rediscovery of basic truth,” Walsh added.
On his new podcast, the California governor shocked his fellow Democrats by calling biological men competing in women’s sports “deeply unfair.”
Newsom was asked by his conservative guest Charlie Kirk whether he would “say no to men in female sports.”
“I think it’s an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that,” Newsom answered. “It is an issue of fairness — it’s deeply unfair.”
However, back in 2014 when Newsom was lieutenant governor, he celebrated California’s new law allowing trans-identifying male students to compete in girls’ sports. He celebrated again when conservative groups failed to repeal that law.
Newsom has not spoken about Assembly Bill 844, and Democrats are expected to kill the bill after the committee hearing.
The bill was introduced by Rep. Bill Essayli, a Republican. Essayli slammed California Democrats ahead of Tuesday’s hearing, saying he expects them to reject his bill.
“I believe the Democrats will double down and reject this bill tomorrow,” Essayli told Fox News. “They want to make a public scene out of it so they can be heroes to their progressive base.”
Female athletes in California, including Taylor Starling, a high school cross-country runner in Riverside who lost her spot on the varsity team to a trans-identifying transfer student, have faced unfair competition from male students who identify as female.
On Friday, Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent Newsom a letter noting his shifting position and warning him to comply with federal law on prohibiting male students in girls’ sports and bathrooms or risk losing federal funding.
In recent years, gender ideology in public schools has faced fierce backlash from parents and other critics across the nation who point to both privacy and safety dangers with having males on the playing field and in bathrooms with girls.
Meanwhile, female athletes have lost nearly 900 medals to males who identify as transgender, according to a recent United Nations report.
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