Last updated on April 22nd, 2021 at 12:18 pm<\/p>\n
Late last week, Alabama became the latest in a series of states to move legislation that would bar student athletes from participating in non-coed sporting competitions based on their “gender identities” rather than their biological sex. The bill\u2014H.B. 391<\/a>\u2014has passed Alabama’s House<\/a> in late March with a vote of 74-19; on April 15th, the Senate approved<\/a> the legislation 25-2. It now awaits the signature of Republican Governor Kay Ivey before becoming law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lawmakers in Alabama and elsewhere would be na\u00efve, however, were they to think the passage of such legislation will be the end of the fight to protect girls’ and women’s sports. Apart from the inevitable litigation that will be levied against such bills, there will also be consequences from corporate America, as elites in the business world seek to pander to “woke” sensibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the subject of an opinion piece yesterday at AL.com by conservative Christian writer Dana Hall McCain: “Spare Alabama the lecture, NCAA<\/a>.” She refers to the widely publicized statement from the NCAA Board of Governors stating that the organization “firmly and unequivocally supports… transgender student-athletes” and that when choosing sites for championships the NCAA would be taking into consideration whether the site is “free from discrimination.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n