Maryland Democrats Hang Sign Dismissing Concerns About Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports
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The Maryland Freedom Caucus, a group of Republican delegates in the Maryland state legislature, made a social media post showing a sign that appeared to have been hung by Democratic colleagues, dismissing concerns about trans athletes in women’s sports.
The post claimed the sign was hung on Wednesday, National Girls and Women in Sports Day.
The sign, which bears the signature of the Maryland LGBTQ+ Legislative Caucus, was hung in the offices of Democratic state delegates Eric Ebersole and Nick Allen.
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Ebersole and Allen provided a joint statement to News Digital about the sign.
“As proud allies, we support the LGBTQ+ Caucus and its work to fight discrimination and counter rampant misinformation directed at the transgender community. Our office is next to that of our friend, colleague, and chair of the LGBTQ+ Caucus, and will always be a safe space. At a time when adults, especially those in positions of power, feel compelled to publicly bully trans children, we choose to stand with the LGBTQ+ community today and always,” the statement read.
The poster claims that “trans women have no competitive advantage” in women’s sports.
In 2021, the British Journal of Sports Medicine published a study that said transgender women maintain an advantage over biological women even after a year of hormone therapy treatment.
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The poster also said that “anti-dignity policies put transgender youth at risk,” “banning transgender youth is illegal,” and “invasive enforcement creates fear.”
All of this happened one day before the Maryland state legislature votes on the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.
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The bill would require “certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools and certain locker rooms to be expressly designated on the basis of biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions against a school for maintaining separate interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or locker rooms for female students.”
So far, 27 US states have similar laws in place imposing bans on trans athletes in women’s sports.
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Jackson Thompson is a sports reporter for News Digital covering critical political and cultural issues in sports, with an investigative lens. Jackson’s reporting has been cited in federal government actions related to Title IX enforcement and in legacy media outlets, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The News and ESPN.com.