{"id":4195,"date":"2023-07-13T03:49:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T03:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4195"},"modified":"2023-07-13T04:06:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T04:06:41","slug":"wisconsin-republicans-reintroduce-save-womens-sports-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4195","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Republicans Reintroduce Save Women\u2019s Sports Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/save-womens-sports-act\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/save-womens-sports-act\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Collage-Maker-12-Jul-2023-10-46-PM-1670.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Save Women\u2019s Sports Act\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Save Women\u2019s Sports Act\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers are trying again with a plan to keep individuals born biological males from playing girls\u2019 sports.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Barb Dittrich, R-Oconomowoc, and Sen. Dan Knodl, R-Germantown, on Wednesday, reintroduced the Save Women\u2019s Sports Act, which would ban transgender athletes from competing with biological women and girls in high school and college sports in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis legislation will ensure that female athletes continue to have equal access to athletic opportunities and safe competition under the spirit of Title IX,\u201d Knodl said in a statement. \u201cAs the father of two daughters and former student athletes, I am committed to upholding a level playing field where female athletes can thrive, compete, and excel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dittrich first tried to get a girls-sports-only law in Wisconsin two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn March 2, 2021, I held a news conference with legislators, parents, and student athletes to bring attention to the issue of saving women\u2019s athletics for biological females. At that time, the name Lia Thomas was not widely known nor had pictures showing the side-by-side physical size differences between the genders been widely circulated,\u201d Dittrich explained. \u201cSince that time, more women have been injured by biological males competing in things like volleyball\u2026Additionally, women continue to be erased by having their lifetime of hard work stolen by biological males in athletics winning top podium spots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dittrich and Knodl\u2019s plan would require schools to have either male, female, or co-ed teams. Trans students would play on the co-ed teams.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 other states already have a single-sex sports law like the plan Dittrich and Knodl are proposing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo every biological girl &amp; woman out there, we see you,\u201d Dittrich said on Twitter Wednesday. \u201cYou matter! You don\u2019t have to keep giving your awards to boys &amp; men. Our fed\u2019l gov\u2019t made sure that you would be protected under Title IX. We reject this assault on your protected spaces &amp; categories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The LGBTQ advocacy group Fair Wisconsin also took to Twitter Wednesday to push back on Dittrich and Knodl\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo all of our trans and non-binary youth in Wisconsin: You are seen. You are valued. You are loved. We will always have your back and we will never stop fighting for you,\u201d the group said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a while before anything could happen with Knodl and Dittrich\u2019s plan. Lawmakers are pretty much done for the year. And even if it does make it through the legislature, the plan would face an almost certain veto from Gov. Tony Evers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/save-womens-sports-act\/ Republican lawmakers are trying again with a plan to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}