Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits transgender students from playing on sports teams that do not match their birth sex.

Highlights:

• Alleges it is the intent of the legislature to maintain opportunities for female athletes to demonstrate their skill, strength, and athletic abilities while also providing them with opportunities to obtain recognition and accolades, college scholarships, and the numerous other long-term benefits that result from success in athletic endeavors and to promote sex equality by requiring the designation of separate sex-specific athletic teams or sports (Sec. 1-2).

• Requires interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic teams or sports that are sponsored by a public, primary or secondary school, a public postsecondary institution, or any school or institution whose students or teams compete against a public school or public postsecondary institution to be expressly designated as one of the following based on biological sex (Sec. 1-3.a):

• Males, men, or boys;

• Females, women, or girls; or

• Coed or mixed.

• Authorizes a health care  provider to verify the student's biological sex as part of a routine sports physical examination by relying only on one or more of the following (Sec. 1-3.c):

• The student's reproductive anatomy;

• The student's genetic makeup; or

• The student's normal endogenously produced testosterone levels.

• Prohibits a governmental entity, any licensing or accrediting organization, or any athletic association or organization from entertaining a complaint, opening an investigation, or taking any other adverse action against any school or public postsecondary institution for maintaining separate interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic teams or sports for students of the female sex (Sec. 1-4).

• Specifies any student who is deprived of an athletic opportunity or suffers any direct or indirect harm as a result of a violation of this law will have a private cause of action for injunctive relief, damages, and any other relief available  under law against the school or public postsecondary institution (Sec. 1-5.a).

• Establishes all civil actions brought under this law must be initiated within 2 years after the alleged harm occurred (Sec. 1-5.d).

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