{"id":9518,"date":"2026-04-29T07:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/missouri-senate-committee-weighs-extending-transgender-athlete-ban-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:15:08","slug":"missouri-senate-committee-weighs-extending-transgender-athlete-ban-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/missouri-senate-committee-weighs-extending-transgender-athlete-ban-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Senate committee weighs extending transgender athlete ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/092623_mocapitol1-1024x681.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>\n<p>The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City, as pictured September 26, 2023 (Annelise Hanshaw\/Missouri Independent).<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Senate Education Committee debated legislation Tuesday that would prevent further review of transgender athletes participating in high school and collegiate sports.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by state Rep. Brian Seitz, a Republican from Branson, the bill aims to remove the current end date of a 2023 state law requiring transgender students to participate in sports under their biological sex. It has an expiration date of August 2027, and this bill would remove that provision. This bill passed the House in a 98-37 vote, directly along party lines.<\/p>\n<p>Seitz told the committee that his bill would \u201cprotect girls and women from a possible unfair advantage in women\u2019s sports. When scientific, biological differences between the sexes are ignored or not taken into consideration, women and girls suffer, becoming less than rather than equal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA prohibits biological males from competing in female sports. Biological males can practice on the women\u2019s team, and any student athlete can participate and compete on the men\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>Seitz claimed that transgender women participating in women\u2019s sports have won nearly 900 medals. This refers to a report by an independent human rights expert. The medals are listed on a website that claims transgender women do not belong in cisgender sports.<\/p>\n<p>The website says the number of medals, records, scholarships or other opportunities that transgender women have won over cisgender women at 4,799. At the high school level, there were just two instances where a transgender woman placed higher than all other competitors. The website is self-reported.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Sgarro, an attorney for the Missouri ACLU and a transgender man, told the committee that this is a non-issue that Missourians are not worried about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis legislation is not really about sports. It is about erasing and excluding trans people from participation in all aspects of public life,\u201d Sgarro said.<\/p>\n<p>Stevie Miller, a non-binary transgender man, stepped up in front of the committee members clad in a jacket with \u201cBe not afraid\u201d painted on the back in the colors of the transgender flag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is state-sanctioned bullying, allowing the exclusion of some children. You wouldn\u2019t dare exclude a disabled child from participation,\u201d he said. \u201cHow is an androgynous child any different?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller, one of the founders of West Plains Pride, said that transgender and cisgender women perform at about the same level.<\/p>\n<p>Following Miller\u2019s testimony, Education Committee Chair Rick Brattin, a Republican from Harrisonville, questioned having transgender people in the locker room with cisgender people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you think it\u2019s OK for 13-year-old girls to be subjected to a boy with a penis in the shower at a locker room at school,\u201d Brattin asked.<\/p>\n<p>Miller retorted that there is no evidence of that being a requirement in Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you release that information to me, absolutely I\u2019ll believe you, and I\u2019ll change my mind,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>Cammie Storm, a transgender woman from West Plains, said legislators should not make the law permanent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have lived in environments where people believe they have the right to control who I was, where identity was something to be corrected,\u201d Storm said. \u201cWhen the state passes laws like this, it sends a message that those systems were right, and that has consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Katy Erker-Lynch, executive director of PROMO, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group, said that out of the 510,000 athletes in the NCAA, fewer than 10 are transgender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not what Missourians want. This is not what our state needs,\u201d Erker-Lynch said, \u201cand to be honest, it is deeply misogynistic and sexist to believe that any man could beat any woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This story originally appeared in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiamissourian.com\/news\/state_news\/transgender-activists-speak-out-against-sports-ban\/article_aab5bee3-dbef-4c2f-9d0d-376f3e76893e.html\" target=\"_blank\">Columbia Missourian<\/a>. It can be republished in print or online.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City, as pictured September 26, 2023 (Annelise Hanshaw\/Missouri Independent). The Senate Education Committee debated legislation Tuesday that would prevent further review of transgender athletes participating in high school and collegiate sports. Sponsored by state Rep. 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