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by JACKSON WALKER | The National News Desk
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INDIANAPOLIS (TNND) — Indiana state Rep. Michelle Davis, R-Whiteland, on Thursday proposed a bill which would ban transgender girls in the state from playing on women’s college teams.
The bill, HB 1041, would require state colleges to designate athletic teams as either "male," "female" or "coeducational." Under this legislation, a biologically male athlete could not participate on a female team.
Language in the bill would also require schools located outside of the Hoosier State that compete against Indiana teams to notify the opposing team of any biologically male athletes participating in female sports. State colleges would also have to establish “grievance procedures” to deal with violations of these rules, according to the bill.
Schools which do not comply with the bill would be subject to a “civil action,” the bill reads. The measure will be read for the first time to the state's House Education Committee next week.
State Rep. Davis did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The National News Desk (TNND).
Current Indiana law prohibits transgender girls in K-12 schools from competing in sports based on gender identity. State Rep. Davis authored that bill as well, which overcame a veto by Gov. Eric Holcomb in 2022.
The representative is also behind a bill prohibiting state physicians from knowingly providing gender transition procedures to those under the age of 18. That measure also included “civil enforcement actions” for these individuals.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita in October spoke out against a court decision supporting a state inmate's right to receive transgender procedures while imprisoned. Autumn Cordellioné had argued a state law barring the state's Department of Corrections from providing gender transition surgeries to people who are imprisoned is discriminatory.
“Prisoners like the convicted baby murderer in this case don’t have a constitutional right to gender transition surgeries, much less to have taxpayers’ foot the bill,” Rokita said. “We will continue doing our duty to defend Indiana’s commonsense laws.”
Cordellioné is in prison for strangling an 11-month-old baby to death.
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