Texas Governor Signs Law Similar to Arkansas’ Protecting Fairness in Women’s Sports

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Rep. Barker presents Act 461 to the Arkansas House of Representatives on March 22, 2021.

On Monday Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a law requiring students participating in school athletics to compete according to their biological sex.

The law is slated to take effect in Texas in January.

Texas’ new law is very similar to a law that the Arkansas Legislature passed earlier this year: Act 461 of 2021.

Act 461 of 2021 is a good law by Sen. Missy Irvin (R — Mountain View) and Rep. Sonia Barker (R — Smackover). It prevents male student athletes from competing against girls in women’s athletics. This protects fairness in women’s sports at school.

Act 461 passed with strong support from Arkansas’ legislature.

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed it into law last March, and it took full effect last July.

Letting biological males who identify as female compete against girls can rob female student athletes of opportunities for scholarships. In some sports, it can even be dangerous.

It’s good to see states like Texas and Arkansas take a stand to defend fairness in women’s sports.

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No Female Is In this Picture

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Admiral Rachel Levine, a man who identifies as a transgender woman, was commissioned into the U.S. Public Health Service’s Commissioned Corps. Officials called Levine’s promotion “historic” because, they assured everyone, Levine was the first female four-star admiral in the Commissioned Corps.

When something like this is announced the way it was – surrounded by fanfare and reporters constantly reminding us that this is a woman – it’s not cynical to wonder whether the job was earned by qualification or just a PR campaign. But it is unsettling to consider that the administration might promote someone more for the photo op than their abilities. And it’s frankly condescending to the Admiral, though he didn’t seem to see it that way.

This feels a lot less like a culture that’s soberly “following the science” and a lot more like a culture heading “through the looking glass.”

Copyright 2021 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.

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Arkansas’ SAFE Act Goes to Trial July 25, 2022

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Recently U.S. District Judge James Moody announced that the lawsuit over Arkansas’ Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act will go to trial sometime during the week of July 25, 2022.

The Arkansas Legislature passed the SAFE Act last spring. It is an excellent law that protects children from sex-reassignment procedures, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones.

Researchers do not know the long term effects that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones can have on kids. That is why many experts agree that giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children is experimental, at best.

That’s also why a major hospital in Sweden announced last spring that it would no longer administer puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children.

However, the ACLU and others filed a lawsuit against the SAFE Act. Last July a federal judge in Little Rock temporarily blocked the state from enforcing this good law.

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has appealed that order to the Eighth Circuit.

In the meantime, the lawsuit over whether or not the SAFE Act is constitutional is progressing through the court system.

Arkansas’ SAFE Act is a good law that protects children. We believe courts ultimately will recognize that fact and uphold this good law as constitutional.

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