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CV NEWS FEED // Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey Feb. 13 signed into law a bill that gives definitions of “man” and “woman” according to biology, providing the state’s policy on the question, “What is a woman?”
The bill, which goes into effect Oct. 1, is referred to as “What is a Woman Act,” according to WSFA 12, a Montgomery, Alabama, affiliate of NBC.
“If the Good Lord made you a boy, you’re a boy. And if He made you a girl, you’re a girl,” Ivey stated Feb 13, according to WSFA 12. “In Alabama, we believe there are two genders: Male and female. There is nothing complicated or controversial about it.”
Ivey said that signing the bill is her answer to the question, “What is a woman?”
“It did not take a biologist to figure it out,” she said.
Senate Bill 79, sponsored by state Sen. April Weaver, a Republican, aims to protect the safety and privacy of men, women, boys, and girls, especially by protecting single-sex spaces. It aims to bring clarity and consistency as a state on laws related to sex discrimination, equality of the sexes, and services specific to males or females only, the bill states. It also allows for “public entities to establish certain single sex spaces or environments,” according to the bill’s text.
It defines “woman” as “an adult human of the female sex,” and “man” as “an adult human of the male sex.” The bill states that one is determined either male or female at birth.
Persons who are born with intersex conditions or differences in sex development (DSDs) are not a third sex, the bill adds, but they must have accommodations that are in line with local and federal law.
“There are only two sexes,” the legislation states, “and every individual is either male or female.”
