and the Walter Cronkite school
of journalism at Arizona state
university.
>> North Dakota's governor
signed a bill banning gender
affirming treatment, including
hormones for anyone under the
age of 18.
Meantime, the democratic
governor of Kansas vetoed a bill
that would have done the same
and imposed for the
restrictions.
In Washington, house Republicans
passed a ban on transgender
girls playing women's sports in
school.
Democrats are expected to block
from becoming law in the senate.
>> I think somebody needs to get
a little bit of logic and
sanity.
>> In the centuries-old U.S.
House, a modern divide.
>> Republicans care about girls.
>> Is the day started with a
group of Republican women
emphatically backing a ban on
transgender girls in women's
sports.
All sides realize the stakes for
young people and politics.
>> House Republicans make trends
girls participation in sports --
>> House debate has been as if
the two parties live on
different planets.
>> Trance kids are kids.
They should be able to live
lives of opportunities,
including playing sports.
>> We are not talking about real
women competing in women's
sports.
We talking about real boys, real
men competing in women's sports.
>> The bill is simple -- banning
federally funded schools -- so
most schools -- from letting men
play in men's -- in women's
sports, alleging that gender
determination will be based
solely on a person's biology at
birth.
It passed the house today on
party lines.
The bill is already dead in the
senate so will not move forward,
but it remains a major base
issue on the right.
Conservatives point to the
national collegiate title won by
a transgender woman in spending
-- in swimming, and two outcries
from some like a group of
cisgender women in Connecticut,
who sued over having to compete
against transgender runners.
One of those suing was at the
capitol today.
>> Aires against these athletes
over a dozen times, and they
would beat me out by 20 meters
in the hundred-meter --.
>> Cases like this are a
meniscal minority, even as
dozens of state legislatures
proposed bills to restrict
transgender Americans in 2020,
and there are even more now --
cases like this in 2020 were a
minuscule minority.
>> Jenny is a mom of three who's
16-year-old daughter is a star
student and field hockey player.
She became an advocate when this
photo of her saying she was the
transgender person people feared
went viral.
She later joined a campaign for
trans athletes.
>> When you know the balls go
in, you got it, and you have
been good.
>> Rebekah's mom argued her
daughter does not have an
advantage and is not the best
person on her team, but that she
and other trans kids should not
face discrimination for
something that is innate.
>> When she went out into the
world as herself, which meant
changing her name and pronouns
at eight years old -- nothing
else -- her joy exploded.
>> At the capitol, the issue has
hit powerful cross-sections.
Religion.
>> Also in Matthew 19:4, does
the beginning, the creator made
them male and female.
>> These bills tell some of the
most vulnerable children in our
country that they do not belong.
Shame on you.
>> About how the parties see
women.
>> We are in a battle for the
very survival of women's sports.
>> Let's be clear about what
this bill actually is -- it is
about legislating hate in the
name of advancing a political
agenda.
>> House Republicans walked out
of the capitol today celebrating
even though this bill will not
become law.
It will become part of their
argument in the 2024 election.