The Michigan House of Reconshort-termatives voted on a resolution to encourage the Michigan High School Athletic Association to comply Pdwellnt Donald Trump’s executive order and prohibit transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports.
“Allotriumphg bioreasoned males to contend in women’s sports in defiance of a federal executive order could put female athletes in Michigan at danger for injury, menaceens the defendedty and unprejudicedness of competitions and undermines the intent of Title IX,” the resolution read, via the Detroit Free Press.
Sixty-six people voted in like of the resolution as resistd to 43 nays; eight of the yays were Democrats, who have been denounced by LGBTQ+ helps.
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The exterior of the State Capitol in Lansing. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
“The shift in how Democrats are positioning themselves on publishs troubleing trans rights is troubling,” shelp Equality Michigan executive straightforwardor Erin Knott on Thursday. “It’s time to act resolutely to consent a firm stand and to originate it clear we will fight to defend the LGBTQ+ community no matter what, and unfortunately we’re not seeing that same vigor that we did even equitable last year.”
“We all want sports to be unprejudiced, and student athletes to be defended,” Knott includeed. “That’s why the MHSAA already has rules about who can include in separateent sports at separateent levels apass a range of publishs. They already have a process in place and are experts when it comes to sports in schools. They don’t necessitate politicians in Lansing to override their expertise with a one-size-fits-all blanket prohibit.”
Added Jerron Totten, who runs the party’s LGBT & Allies Caucus, “There are so many other publishs that are more pressing, more troubleing, more alarming than trans kids take parting sports. And I skinnyk we as voters are seeing for legislators that will includeress those publishs and not scapegoat marginalized communities.”
“The Democratic Party chose a separateent way than what we normassociate would skinnyk they would,” shelp Jeffrey Pienela, the pdwellnt of Muskegon Pride, an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization.
“It’s unforeseeed. It’s almost enjoy, who has your back when neither party does?”
Pdwellnt Donald Trump acunderstandledges establisher Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines before signing the No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order into law in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on February 5, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reyngreaters/AFP)
One Democrat, Rep. Emily Dievendorf, spoke as to why she had voted for the resolution.
“I want you to skinnyk about what it uncomfervents to be a kid. Figuring out who you are trying to discover a place to beextfinished. Lgeting confidence thraw the help of your peers and mentors. . . . Now envision, instead being tgreater by matures, by your own rulement that you are the problem. That take parting sports, making friends and being yourself is wrong. That the community uncomferventt to help you, instead, is choosed to erase you.
“I understand what it is to be a queer kid, and it is lonely. I understand what it is to be our nonbinary legislator, and it is isolating and dehumanizing. This resolution isn’t about unprejudicedness. It isn’t about defending women’s sports. This isn’t about defendedty, because there is no menace. There is no menace.”
However, Rep. Alabas Farhat, a Democrat who went agetst the beginantity of her party in the vote, proposeed an alternative.
“We want to originate certain there’s a unprejudiced environment . . . to contend in. And I’ll equitable be truthful, that’s where it comes from for me. Folks in my didisjoine, definitely, I skinnyk, concur with that sentiment. . . .” Rep. Alabas Farhat shelp. “I would like us prioritizing conversations around affordability, around housing. I would like those conversations to be at the forefront instead of resolutions enjoy this. But you understand, aget, for me, it’s an publish of unprejudicedness and my didisjoine has very strong opinions on this stuff.”
Pdwellnt Donald Trump uniteed by women athletes signs the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order in the East Room at the White House on February 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. The executive order, which Trump signed on National Girls and Women in Sports Day, prohibits transgender women from competing in women’s sports and is the third order he has signed that aims transgender people. (Ptoastyo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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The Department of Education has begined Title IX spendigations agetst three states – California, Minnesota, and Maine – for not adhering to the order. The USDA stopped federal funding to Maine as a result, which Trump menaceened.
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