No boys on girls sports teams, no gender reassignment surgery till 18

Gov. Chris Sununu (Courtesy photo)

CONCORD - Gov. Chris Sununu on Friday signed into law two bills that will safeguard girls sports and prohibit gender-reassignment surgeries for anyone under 18.
HB 619 requires a person be 18 to obtain the surgery, while HB 1205, also known as the "fairness in women's sports act," mandates one must participate as their biological sex, not as one they identify as.
"As the debate over HB 619 and HB 1205 has played out in Concord and throughout the state, charged political statements have muddled the conversation and distracted from the two primary factors that any parent must consider: safety and fairness for their children," Sununu said Friday afternoon. "These two factors have been my primary consideration in reviewing these bills."
Sununu said HB 1205 is simply "a matter of fairness and safety."

HB 1205 "maintains integrity and competitive balance in athletic competitions," he added. " With this widely supported step, New Hampshire joins nearly half of all U.S. states in taking this measure."
He also signed HB 1312, which requires parental notification of student health or well-being and certain curricula by school districts. It mandates advance notice of "any curriculum course material" for education on sexual matters including "sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or gender expression.".
The ACLU immediately condemned Sununu's for signing the bills.

"These unconstitutional bills - now signed into law - are cynical attacks on some of the most vulnerable youth in our state and will have devastating impacts on transgender and LGBTQ+ students who already face discrimination and isolation just for being their authentic selves," said Devon Chaffee, executive director of the ACLU of New Hampshire. "Our politicians are continuing to fail trans youth: These laws are not actually about fair sports, healthy classrooms, or overall wellbeing, but rather imposing discriminatory views and pushing transgender people out of public life."
Strafford District 5 state rep Tom Kaczynski, R-Rochester, however, said the ACLU's position is dangerous to our youth.
"It's pretty obvious that men shouldn't be playing on women's sports teams," he said today. "It destroy the progress women and girls have made through the years. Men obviously have a definite physical advantage. People have to realize there are two sexes; follow the science. There's also a sense of fairness to prohibit males from female sports, including the possibility of girls being injured."

Ashley Carol, who has a daughter in the Rochester school system agreed with Kaczynski, and added a unique solution for the ACLU and trans advocates to consider.
"There should be no intermingling of the sexes in sports. Boys and girls should have their own teams," Carol said, "but if boys transitioning to women would like to play sports they should have their own team of trans girls, because at the end of the day there are only two sexes."
Kaczynski also hailed Sununu's signing into law the act that prohibits gender reassignment surgery till they are officially an adult at age 18.
"If you're a minor you can't vote, you can't smoke, can't get a tattoo, so why would you be allowed to do gender mutilation," he said. "You're in your teen years, you go through different feelings. There's a lot of stuff going on with hormones raging; it's, not a time for a kid to make a decision that could have long-term consequences that are irreversible."