CV NEWS FEED // A group that fights for the rights of female athletes slammed Connecticut Democrats’ ongoing attempt to amend the state’s Constitution to promote the “transgender” movement and appease the abortion lobby.
The recently-introduced Senate Joint Resolution No. 4 seeks to update the definition of “discrimination” in the Constitution of Connecticut to include “discrimination, in intent or effect, based on … preventing, initiating, continuing or terminating a pregnancy; sexual orientation; gender identity and expression; and related health care.”
Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) co-foundress Kim Jones blasted the resolution, pointing out that it would enable men who call themselves women to compete in women’s sports competitions.
“We don’t allow adults to compete against children,” she stated. “We don’t allow doped athletes to compete against clean athletes. We don’t allow men to compete against women.”
She called Senate Joint Resolution No. 4 “an egregious abuse of women.”
The women’s sports advocate continued:
As soon as you say you have to be able to recognize someone’s gender identity at the same value of sex, what you are saying is that you’ve got a conflict and you’re going to recognize that a male, his beliefs, his sense of self, is allowed to supersede or be equated to the value of the rights of a woman based on her sex.
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Pro-life advocates in the state also denounced the measure.
Family of Institute of Connecticut Executive Director Peter Wolfgang called out the resolution at the Connecticut March for Life last week.
“Abortion is already legal in Connecticut,” he said. “The only thing this [proposed amendment] would do is make it even easier than it already is to have a late-term abortion. This is abortion right up to birth.”
Breitbart reported that “If the [Connecuticut] legislature passes the resolution, it will appear on the ballot in the upcoming November election for voters to decide on.”
“To pass the legislature, the bill requires a 75 percent majority approval in both the state House and Senate,” Breitbart added.
To meet this threshold, at least three Republican state Senators and 17 Republican state Representatives will have to vote for the resolution.
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At least one Democratic lawmaker in the state House has indicated that she opposes the initiative.
Also at the state’s March for Life, State Rep. Treneé McGee, D-CT, confronted her party’s support of Senate Joint Resolution No. 4.
“I’m concerned with the abortion industry’s target on women of color and pieces of legislation that, I believe, are detrimental to my community,” she stated. “In the state of Connecticut, you can seek an abortion up to 24 weeks – that is six months.”
A pro-life Democrat, McGee is the youngest black woman ever elected to the Connecticut state legislature.
CatholicVote reported Thursday:
In April 2022, McGee was one of 14 State House Democrats – among them 10 people of color – who voted against a bill to further expand abortion in Connecticut. Though the legislation ultimately passed, McGee rose in the State House to speak out against it, revealing conversations she had had with black girls over the years about abortion.
Currently, Democrats hold exactly two-thirds of the seats in the Connecticut Senate and just under 65% of the seats in the Connecticut House.
Per the resolution’s text, if passed, the following question will appear on Connecticut voters’ November 5 ballots:
Shall the Constitution of the State be amended to amend the equal protection clause to provide that discrimination on the basis of sex includes discrimination based on pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity and expression?
Like in many other states, notably including Ohio, only a simple majority of voters will be required to approve the Connecticut amendment if it makes it to the ballot.
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Connecticut previously made headlines for policies enabling men to compete against women in athletic competitions.
Last year, FOX Business reported that former high school track star Chelsea Mitchell was suing the state.
“All four years of my high school experience, I raced against these two biological males who ended up taking four state championships, two honorary awards, and countless other opportunities for myself to advance,” Mitchell said at the time. “And it’s not fair to force people to participate against biological males, and so that’s why I’m suing.”
Selina Soule was another Connecticut high school track star who sued the state after she was forced to face a male competitor.
Soule wrote in a 2022 op-ed for FOX News:
States like Connecticut, as well as the NCAA, the International Olympic Committee, and other sports’ governing bodies, have pushed a radical gender ideology that sidelines women and deprives them of medals, championships, qualifying spots, and potentially even scholarship opportunities.
