Vermont’s U.S. Representative incorrectly interprets decision
By Ted Cohen
Vermont’s openly-gay congresswoman is blasting the nation’s highest court for banning transgender kids from sports, but that’s not what the panel did.
The US Supreme Court ruled Hune 30 boys who claim they are girls can neither play on girls sports teams nor go into their locker rooms.
So Democrat Becca Balint is incorrect telling her constituents the court is “allowing states to ban trans athletes from participating in school sports.”
All the majority justices voted to do was prevent boys claiming to be the opposite gender from playing on girls teams.
So the bottom line is so-called trans kids are welcome to be athletes – but not on mixed-gender squads.
“Knowing there are some parents whose kids are not gonna be able to participate in elementary school or middle school sports because they are trans kids is just absolutely heartbreaking to me,” Balint said in her Facebook video message. “And I understand for so many Americans, these issues are hard, and there’s so much misinformation and fear attached to issues around trans kids.”
Actually the misinformation is Balint’s for misstating the court’s majority ruling.
The court, in an opinion written by Brett Kavanaugh, said that “the states may maintain women’s and girls’ sports for biological females. They may determine eligibility for women’s and girls’ sports based on biological sex.”
That of course is not what Balint is claiming.
Balint, elected to the U.S. House four years ago is the first openly “LGBTQ” person to represent Vermont in Congress.