New Nebraska Law Classifies School Sports Teams by Sex

Gov. Jim Pillen says the goal is to make sure women and girls can fairly compete in sports.

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has signed a new law requiring students to play on school sports teams based on their sex, a move he says is necessary to protect women and girls and their ability to fairly compete in sports.

The law makes sure that โ€œwe simply have a fair playing ground,โ€ said Pillen on Wednesday at a signing ceremony, where he was joined by lawmakers, advocates of womenโ€™s rights, and several female athletes from Nebraska and across the country.

Among them was Riley Gaines, a former collegiate swimmer from Tennessee who made national headlines in 2022 when she tied with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas for fifth in the womenโ€™s 200-meter NCAA championships. She has since become a leading voice in a national movement to preserve womenโ€™s sports for women.

โ€œIโ€™m here today to celebrate the tremendous progress in saving womenโ€™s sports and reclaiming our language,โ€ Gaines said.

The new law applies to both Kโ€“12 and postsecondary public education institutions. It mandates that students compete on sports teams according to their sex, defined in the bill as whether a person โ€œnaturally has, had, will, or would haveโ€ male or female reproductive systems.

Under the law, girls will be allowed to participate on boysโ€™ teams only if no equivalent girlsโ€™ team exists, such as in football. Private schools must adopt the same policy if they compete against public institutions.

โ€œWe are protecting all young women in sports,โ€ Pillen said at a press conference that followed the ceremony. โ€œIt is not biologically apt for a young boy that says, โ€˜Iโ€™m a trans,โ€™ and becomes a woman to compete in sports. Itโ€™s just not fair. Itโ€™s not right. Itโ€™s not common sense.โ€

The law builds on Pillenโ€™s executive order last year establishing a โ€œWomenโ€™s Bill of Rights,โ€ which laid out a legal definition of male and female based on biological sex and detailed differences between the sexes.

Byย Bill Pan

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