Boise State University’s decision to forfeit its women’s volleyball matches against San Jos State University and same-sex marriage are the subjects of the first bills submitted in the Idaho Capitol this year.
Members of the Idaho House State Affairs Committee decided to advance a resolution and a memorial on Tuesday morning.
The first person to provide her memorial to the committee was Representative Heather Scott, a Republican from Blanchard. The memorial invites the U.S. Supreme Court to reexamine its 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage, and works to return the power to define marriage to the states.
According to legislative norms, a memorial is a petition or representation produced by the House of Representatives and approved by the Senate, or vice versa, and submitted to the person who can carry out the memorial’s request. In order to proceed with the resolution, the committee decided to hold a hearing at a later time.
Rep. Barbara Ehardt, R-Idaho Falls, introduced a concurrent resolution praising the Boise State University women’s volleyball team for forfeiting their matches against San Jos State University due to the presence of a transgender athlete. This was the second piece of legislation, according to Idaho Education News.
According to Ehardt, a seasoned college basketball coach, her life was transformed by Title IX, the federal legislation that forbids sex-based discrimination in athletics. According to her, the Mountain West Conference should never have permitted a transgender athlete to compete.
She said that the Mountain West should be ashamed for letting this happen and not altering their practices. It is even more unfortunate that Charlie Baker, the president of the NCAA, let this to occur. It shouldn’t have occurred. It’s wrong that their regressive practices are placing guys in single-sex settings and in women’s sports.
The concurrent resolution is not legally binding. Rather, it conveys the Legislature’s viewpoint on a subject. The committee decided to proceed with the resolution to a full public hearing, which will take place later.
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