LAWMAKERS DEFINE MALE, FEMALE IN NEBRASKA LAW FOR SCHOOL SPORTS

LINCOLN — All Nebraska student-athletes will soon be legally required to play on interscholastic sports teams based on the student’s sex at birth under a legislative bill passed Wednesday at the governor’s urging. 

Legislative Bill 89, the “Stand With Women Act” from State Sen. Kathleen Kauth of the Millard area, passed 33-16 after a one-hour debate. Speaker John Arch of La Vista limited the length of time for the third round of debate by labeling the bill as “controversial and emotionally charged.” Nebraska will join more than two dozen states with similar laws already on the books. While LB 89’s passage is good, Kauth said, it’s not the finish line.

Under the bill, “sex” would be defined as whether someone “naturally has, had, will or would have, but for a congenital anomaly or intentional or unintentional disruption, the reproductive system that at some point produces, transports and utilizes” either eggs (female, woman or girl) or sperm (male, man or boy) for fertilization. 

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