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DESCRIPTION:Attorney General Todd Rokita continues to defend a new Indiana 
 law protecting girls’ sports against a baseless lawsuit filed by the lef
 tist American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).\n\n“It’s called Hoosier co
 mmon sense\,” Attorney General Rokita said. “Biological males have cer
 tain physiological advantages that make it unfair to allow them to compete
  for spots on girls’ sports teams. The law passed by the Indiana General
  Assembly simply acknowledges that science and protects the integrity of g
 irls’ sports in K-12 schools.”\n\nAttorney General Rokita filed a brie
 f Friday opposing the ACLU’s motion for a preliminary injunction against
  enforcement of the new law\, House Enrolled Act 1041.\n\n“After all the
  years of hard work to ensure equal opportunities for girls and women\,”
  Attorney General Rokita said\, “it’s unconscionable that these leftis
 ts are trying to tear down that progress in the name of nonsensical wokeis
 m.”\n\nThe ACLU is representing a 10-year-old Indianapolis Public School
 s student who was born a male but began identifying as female by age 4 and
 \, with parental support\, took puberty blockers to avoid developing male 
 characteristics. Although a biological male\, the student wants to play on
  a school-sponsored girls’ softball team.\n\nThe ACLU’s case manifests
  blatant weaknesses — invoking federal Title IX protections in its argum
 ent\, for example.\n\nThe Title IX law prohibits sex discrimination and re
 quires equal opportunities regardless of sex. But such protections are exa
 ctly what the law under challenge by the ACLU helps achieve. Obviously\, t
 he ordinary meaning of sex at the time of Title IX’s enactment in 1972 w
 as biological sex\, not gender identity.\n\n“I promised Hoosiers when th
 e governor vetoed this law that I would gladly defend it if the legislatur
 e overrode the veto\,” Attorney General Rokita said. “Indiana’s lawm
 akers did their part\, and I am doing mine. Hoosier girls deserve no less.
 ”\n\nThe brief filed Friday by Attorney General Rokita is linked here.\n
 \nA headshot of Attorney General Rokita is available for download.\n\n###
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