New Mexico bill to bar trans women from women’s sports effectively defeated

Source: KUNM

“On the heels of President Trump’s executive order barring trans women and girls from competing in women's and girls’ sports, a panel of New Mexico lawmakers Thursday tabled a bill that would have enshrined a similar exclusion in state law,” says Nash Jones, the KUNM reporter who covered this victory in New Mexico.

“That move effectively defeated the legislation. Trans advocates say the proposal comes from out-of-state parties and has no place in New Mexico.”

Adrien Lawyer, co-founder and director of education at the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico, speaks to the overarching strategy of introducing this type of legislation for years on end despite their failing to move out of committee each time. “This is much more of a political, symbolic act,” says Lawyer. “It’s meant to show solidarity with a central sort of anti-trans plank at that political level all over the country.”