In its perpetual solution in search of a problem, Republicans in the Louisiana legislature are pushing a ban on transgender participating in sports, but GOP members of the state government can’t point to a specific case to rally around, according to The Advocate.
As the state senate debates SB 156, which would limit participating on girls’ and women’s sports teams to those who are “biological females,” presumably those labeled female at birth. There is no provision in the bill for banning “biological females” from participating on boys’ and men’s teams. Republican state senator Beth Mizell of Franklintown stated that she sponsored the bill because without it, there would “no longer be women’s sports.”
However, when questioned by Democratic state senator Cleo Fields of Baton Rouge asked Mizell to cite one case of a transgender female participating in a sport in the state, Mizell was flummoxed.
“So it’s not a problem in Louisiana, now?” Fields said.
“Not in Louisiana,” Mizell said, going on to say that her legislation was “preemptive,” apparently in a “Minority Report” kind of way.
Dr. Clifton S. Mixon, a child psychologist at Ochsner, a medical system in Louisiana, said the bill “solves a problem that doesn’t exist” and “approaches a very complex issue with a mallet that’s going to hurt a lot of people.”