The Minnesota House failed to pass the Save Women’s Sports Act weeks after President Donald Trump’s executive order banned biological men from participating in women’s and women’s sports games.
HF12 requires 68 House votes to pass, but the bill drops one vote by 67 negative votes.
The bill states: “Only female students can participate in primary or secondary sports teams or sports where educational institutions are limited to women and girls.”
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A person waved the trans pride flag during the People’s Parade on January 18, 2025 and gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, USA. (Nathan Morris/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
The bill mentions: “Women are women determined by genetics and defined by the individual’s reproductive system.”
As they waited for the final vote, they saw a rally of supporters and opponents at the Capitol.
Before the bill was finally voted, Minnesota’s House of Representatives had some “emotional discussions” with Republican State Rep. Peggy Scott, who sponsored the bill, the speaker.
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“We can’t make our girls vulnerable to attacks on the team, on the podium or on the male team members or male competitors,” she said. “That’s not safe, it’s not fair to our girls.”
Republican State Rep. Marion Rarick added: “We women and girls around the world are so scared to compete with biology men that they dropped out of school.”
However, opponents of the bill pointed out that transgender discrimination is in their arguments.
“All children should play,” said Rep. Brion Curran, a democrat who chairs the Minnesota Queer Legislators Caucus. “We won’t be complacent with this hateful and dangerous anti-perverted rhetoric.”
President Donald Trump signed the Executive Executive Officer of “No Men in Women’s Sports” on February 5, 2025. (AP/Imagn)
Rep. Liish Kozlowski, a Democratic country, added that the bill was “a bill to bully trans girls and non-binary children.”
While the heated debate was underway, the Senate voted on Monday to pass a bill banning trans athletes from participating in women’s sports. The bill did not receive 60 votes, meaning at least seven Democrats did not vote.
Trump’s executive order last month directed the education department to provide notices to school systems and universities that forcing girls and women to compete with trans women is a violation of the IX championship.
After signing the order, the NCAA revised its policy on transgender athletes in women’s sports, although some believe the revision was considered controversial.
Despite the executive order, the Minnesota High School League announced it would continue to include trans athletes in women’s sports, and believed that the Minnesota Human Rights Act and its state constitution believed they were eligible.
House Speaker Melissa Hortman (Brooklyn Park-36B) held a meeting of Minnesota lawmakers at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. (Getty Image)
However, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote a letter late last month warning of the consequences of not passing the “Save Women’s Sports Act.”
“The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has begun a Chapter IX investigation into the Minnesota High School League,” Bondy’s letter read. “If the Department of Education’s investigation shows that Minnesota-related entities are indeed denying girls an equal opportunity to participate in athletics and sports events and demanding that they compete with boys, the Department of Justice is ready to take all appropriate actions to enforce federal law.”
State Democratic Rep. Leigh Finke said there is no trans athlete problem in the United States.
“Minnesota has been inclusive for 10 years. We have zero problems,” Fink said. “But we do it for political reasons. People believe that when you lie to the community long enough.”
Democrats in the Minnesota House voted to decide on the bill.
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Republican state Rep. Peggy Bennett saw that it was completely different.
“This bill is about the fair, safe and safeguarding of the women’s movement in Minnesota.”
If the bill passes through the House on Monday, Tim Walz still won’t sign the signing of Tim Walz, an advocate for trans rights, who is expected to veto it.
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