Proposed legislation would create a gender panel evaluating athletes in Georgia

So Rick Jasperse (R) introduced House Bill 372 on February 9. It also excludes trans girls and women from participating in school-based sports or athletic organizations, but additionally bans anyone that isn’t a cisgender male or female.

Even further, the bill allows for students to “petition” for the right to participate in sports. The petitions, however, “shall include, at a minimum, information regarding the student’s gender based on the student’s reproductive organs, genetic makeup, and other medically relevant factors,” the bill states. The petition will then be subject to “a panel of three physicians to review… and make recommendations to the athletic association.”

It also includes a provision to allow the state to be sued, waiving the state’s immunity — but granting protections for any “ordinarily reasonably prudent” actions by the physicians involved, as long as they are volunteers: “no physician acting in a voluntary capacity shall be liable for civil damages or subject to disciplinary action under professional licensing regulations as a result of the activities authorized or required by this Code section…”