Texas bill would require genetic testing

[angrychair]

New Texas bill, HB1123, would require all high school athletes do genetic testing to prove their sexuality before being allowed to participate in sports.

So you're telling me the same state of people that wouldn't wear a "government mandated mask" on their face, is going to let their children under go government mandated genetic testing?!?!

(b) A student may not compete in an interscholastic athletic
competition designated for a particular biological sex if the
student's chromosomal sex does not match the biological sex
assigned at birth as described in subsection (a). This
determination shall be made based on clinical evidence, including
genetic testing results provided by a licensed medical professional
under Section 33.098.

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB1123/2025

[surfered]

1. I suppose that will keep Ted Cruz from having to look in everyone's underwear

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. Ew

That was a visual I didn't need

[AZ8theist]

7. Is THAT what he did in Cancun? I had no idea........

[surfered]

17. Gov Abbott will appoint him Bathroom Czar

[Montauk6]

3. Does that involve a panel of ordained Fundamentalist pastors peeking in the kiddies' undies?

[lastlib]

10. (they might have some priests volunteer........)

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[Montauk6]

21. Them too!

[Blue_Tires]

4. From the so-called "Party of Individual Freedom"

😒

[Maraya1969]

5. What a bunch of idiots.

[UpInArms]

6. I guess they can repurpose all the obgyn offices into

Sex checking stations

[PeaceWave]

8. And then they'll sell the test results to some data collection firm.

[Lonestarblue]

28. Parents might want to think about their child's DNA being in a database available to law enforcement.

DNA of a relative can be used to track down criminals. Or if a son rapes a girl, his DNA is already on file.

[albacore]

9. Genetics is not my forte. Help me out. Does every manifestation of gender dysphoria show up in genetic tests? Nt

[wnylib]

16. Genetic testing can identify, via the X and Y chromosomes,

what a person's assigned identity at birth was. Therefore, a trans woman would be identified in DNA testing as a man.

Males usually have XY chromosomes and females have XX chromosomes.

But, DNA is not always so clear cut. Sometimes, a baby that appears to be a male at birth has an extra X chromosome that would show up as XXY. Sometimes a baby that appears to be a female at birth has undescended testes instead of ovaries and no penis. Development of a male in the mother's uterus was incomplete. They do not discover this until puberty and adolescence when their body does not develop a female form and they do not start having menstrual periods.

Even among people who have the XX or XY chromosomes to identify them as male or female, the levels of male or female hormones can vary.

I overheard an interview on NPR at the time of the Olympics in which people discussed options for future Olympic athletes. One person suggested eliminating the male/female categories completely and using hormone ranges to establish competition categories. Another person suggested keeping the male/female categories but using hormone levels and body development (muscle strength, height, weight, etc.) to establish competition categories.

[yardwork]

19. This is reality-based, so will be rejected by Republicans and other ninnies.

One would think there was an army of trans people taking over athletics - which, after all, is as close to religion as most Americans get.

The fact that not everybody fits into the Republicans' "beautiful" binary male/female world just doesn't compute. Jesus made Adam and Eve - it says so in the children's bible stories my dentist had in his waiting room.

Trump's appeal is that he gives people permission to reject the complexities of real life and retreat into a permanent toddler stage.

[angrychair]

22. An argument can be made

That this is a precursor to eugenics where the government gets to decide if your child are fit to participate in society.

For some reason that didn't occur to me until I saw your breakdown to all the exceptions to the supposed "rules".

This is actually much scarier now.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

23. No. None do. And genes do are not the be-all determination of gender.

[LudwigPastorius]

11. There's a bumper sticker opportunity here.

"Keep Texas Republicans Out of Our Kids' Genes"

[SoFlaBro]

12. Why the fuck are they so hung up on the whole trans thing? MAGA is such a shitty collection of fuckstains.

[haele]

13. Because less than 1% of the population is easy to villanize.

Especially if it's made out to be a perversion.

I'm wondering what Texas is going to do about XXY and XYY kids. Especially if their genitalia doesn't present in line with the extra chromosome. Or heck, what to do with "normal" XX/XY kids if their genitalia doesn't present the same as their chromosomes.

I wouldn't put it past the state to sterilize them along with forbidding them to get into sports.

Haele

[travelingthrulife]

18. Maybe they will put those kids in their spanking new concentration camps

at the border.

This will be fabulously expensive. Hope it is just Texas paying for this monstrous idea.

[SWBTATTReg]

26. I'm suspecting that the % is actually lower than 1%. In any event, these people are obsessed w/ prying into other

people's lives. Makes me kind of wonder why...do they have some sort of weird (and sick) sexual obsession? Pathetic.

As of 2022, estimates for the total percentage of U.S. adults that are transgender or nonbinary range from 0.5% to 1.6%. Additionally, a Pew Research survey from 2022 found that approximately 5% of young adults in the U.S. say their gender is different from their sex assigned at birth.

[SoFlaBro]

29. They are obsessed with the genitals of children. MAGA is a perverted pack of pissy pedophiles.

[Skittles]

30. because they know giving their base people to hate WORKS

you know, climate change and the war on women, that's OK BUT OMFG TRANS PEOPLE ON THE WRONG SPORTS TEAMS!

[MagickMuffin]

31. The Texas trans issue is because a gop politician's child is transgendered

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/14/jeff-younger-transgender-care-house/


This is the same reason Muskrat is against transgendered people, one of his children transgendered.


So, apparently attack everyone and anyone.

[AverageOldGuy]

14. I read an article . . .

. . . a week ago about a reporter in Michigan who contacted the state high school sports association and asked about "boys playing girls' sports."

Turns out that in the entire state of Michigan, there are TWO boys playing on girls' teams.

There are over 400 girls playing on boys' teams, including 198 playing football.

I'm confused.

[Tickle]

15. I'm assuming it's 2 boys too many

Not confusing but interesting. tRump ran on getting trans out of female sports so I'm not surprised

[yardwork]

20. Just another fake problem hyped to get people upset

The Republican Party's only real strategy for getting out the vote. Apparently it works very well.

[angrychair]

24. Unfortunately

Not a fake problem but a very real one.
Once I was reminded of all the possibilities for variations from the "rules" it became clear that this is little different than eugenics. They want to use human genetics to determine someone's fitness to participate in society. This is a very scary development.

[bronxiteforever]

25. Then the genetic material can be shared

with health insurance companies(for a fee) to deny coverage to those who have preexisting conditions when the healthcare laws are repealed. The Texas GOP can then grift with kickbacks. It is a win-win.

[City Lights]

27. "Small government" at its finest.

[LostOne4Ever]

32. Not only is this hateful transphobic bigotry

But it is going to hurt intersex cis children too!

I FUCKING HATE REPUBLICANS!!!