YOUNG REPUBLICANS OPPOSE VETO

A statement from the executive board

As members of Young Republicans Club, we believe it is unfair for students to play on sports teams that don’t fit their biological sex. It makes the sports and competition unequal. It also takes away scholarship opportunities, especially when there are biological males playing against biological females.

A sophomore on the Young Republicans club exec board, Mackenzie Farkes, wrestled against a biological male who was transitioning into a female.

As this issue was going to press on April 4, various news media outlets announced that SB 180 had cleared the Senate, sending it the governor’s desk where it is expected to be vetoed. The bill would define a person’s gender as “either male or female, at birth.” The bill bans transgender students from using bathrooms and locker rooms in schools, prisons, jails, rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters and other spaces “where biology, safety or privacy” prompt separate facilities for men and women. For more information on the bill, go to smnw.com.