Georgia Transgender Sports Bill applies to private and public schools

• The sponsor of the draft law, Senator Greg Dolezal, argued that security and fairness referred to the inclusion of the effects on all students.
• Opponents, including the Democrats of the Committee and the ACLU of Georgia, argue that the bill is discriminatory, could lead to complaints and represents a dangerous precedent.
• The law was passed with a mood of 9: 3 and will now move to the Senate to receive further debates.
• This draft law is part of a larger wave of anti-LGBTQ legal regulations that were introduced in this meeting in the Senate of the Georgia, including invoices that restrict gender-known care for minors and state employees.

On Thursday, the legislator in the Senate of the Georgia Senate limited transgender students to take part in sports team or use changing rooms that agree their gender identity during the first meeting of the Senate and the first meeting of the youth committee of the Senate of the Senate and the youth committee 2025-2026 . The ban would apply to students in private and public school environments in K-12 schools as well as for universities and universities and signaled a new focus on laws that would restrict the freedoms of transgender people in Georgia.

The draft law SB 1 was introduced by Senator Greg Dolezal (R-Cumming), who also acts as a former member of the Senate Committee for Education and Youth of the Senate.

“What this bill does is that there are really three interests that play here: security, fairness and inclusion,” said Dolezal. “And so those who would not agree with me would say that the main value is involved, and I can respect that as an opinion, but for personally, if I weigh these three things, I would put the security first, I would set fairness in second. And I would put the involvement in third place, and ultimately this leads to the bill that you have in front of you today. “