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La Crosse state Assembly Rep. Jill Billings speaks out at transgender legislation passed by GOP
Wisconsin state Assembly Rep. Jill Billings (D-La Crosse) spoke out Thursday, after Republicans passed three bills targeting transgender children and young adults when it comes to sports and gender-affirming surgeries.
“Assembly Republicans are once again creating an extreme, politically toxic environment but this time they’re putting our children in the middle of it,” Billings stated. “These bills pander to their extreme base while putting some of the most vulnerable children in our communities at risk.”
These three bills passed, with all Democrats, including Billings, opposed:
- Assembly Bill 377 prohibits transgender students in schools from participating in athletics under the gender with which they identify.
- Assembly Bill 378 prohibits transgender university students from participating in athletics under the gender in with which they identify.
- Assembly Bill 465 prohibits medical intervention for gender transition for children.
“Youth sports have a lifelong, positive impact on a child’s physical and mental health,” Billings continued. “AB 377 and AB 378 are unnecessary, both the WIAA and NCAA have policies in place which are more welcoming and inclusive.
In regards to the last bill on the list, Billings said this:
“All children in our state should be welcomed and valued for who they are. Overwhelmingly, Wisconsin medical experts are opposed to this harmful legislation. We should follow their advice. Any medical decision should be left between the children, their parents, and medical professionals, not Legislators.”
Kevin
October 13, 2023 at 8:26 am
Jill Billings does not speak for me!
Assembly Bill 377 prohibits transgender students in schools from participating in athletics under the gender with which they identify. [kk] who gets told to be quiet when a young man or grown man identifies as a girl and decides they are showering with the girls? where is the protection for the girls or young women who do not want this exposure, pun intended! who defends the family from this nonsense. Sometimes the answer is no.
Assembly Bill 378 prohibits transgender university students from participating in athletics under the gender in with which they identify. [kk] who gets told to be quiet when a young man or grown man identifies as a girl and decides they are showering with the girls? where is the protection for the girls or young women who do not want this exposure, pun intended! who defends the family from this nonsense. Sometimes the answer is no.
Assembly Bill 465 prohibits medical intervention for gender transition for children. [kk] clearly we cannot trust the medical community, the psychiatric community, the public school system (they teach this nonsene to your children without informing the parents), the locally elected governance. This is BAD SCIENCE! we all know it is bad science! Injecting hormones, surgically modifying the developing body, administering chemical castration agents to developing children, nothing, anywhere, but in science fiction and fantasy supports this nonsense.
Billings is right, we wouldn’t need this legislation if we could trust our institutions, but it seems they have lost their collective minds! Billings is wrong by not wanting to protect the majority from the tyranny of the minority. She is NOT doing her job, there is no self actualization involved in corrupting the hierarchy of the family structure, there is no good thing coming from trying to ‘nationalize’ our children!
Greg Symons
October 14, 2023 at 7:49 am
There are many things we don’t let minors make choices about, but most of them don’t have the life long consequences that gender transition does. We don’t let minors vote, buy firearms, serve in the military, smoke, drink, or hold political office. The list goes on and on. The reason for these restrictions is that a minors brain hasn’t developed to a point to handle the consequences that come with these activities. We have these restrictions for their protection and the protection of others. Billings is more worried about votes from her LBGQT+ constituents than she is about our youth .
Michael Anderson
October 14, 2023 at 10:25 am
Christian people, good conscious people, need to step up and vote out these Republican elected officials out of office. They don’t value life.
Christian’s are saying that God can’t create a perfect human being and that these people don’t matter because they are not like us Christian people.
When people degrade other people. They’re saying that God is imperfect, makes mistakes, can’t make/create a perfect human being.
Because of a imperfect conditional demanding assertive conditional God that the Christian concept is.
My concept of a God is of a perfect Creator and doesn’t make mistakes.
An unconditional loving God. A love before any condition happens.
Because the majority of people believe that Jesus Christ is saving us from an imperfect conditional demanding assertive God. That demanding of us to be perfect or face damnation in hell. Trans people are just correcting the mistakes that a imperfect conditional God made.
Unconditional love is Not working for Christianity.
Republicans are showing us what a failure religion is in Wisconsin.
Good people need to step up and support all of God’s creations.
The best sermon ever given was only two words. “Behold God.” Behold God within yourself and others.
Trans LGBTQ Blacks Asian Women and others need to be treated with respect and dignity.