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In a recent ruling, the U. S. Supreme Court cleared the way for states to have boys’ sports for boys and girls’ sports for girls. That is not how Minnesota does it. Minnesota State High School League rules say boys who claim to be girls can play on girls’ teams. Now some of our legislators want to make that permanent by writing it into the Minnesota Constitution. Your lead story names Zach Stephenson and Mary Kunesh (“Local legislators speak in favor of Equal Rights Amendment,” March 20, 2026). But this is not your mother’s or your grandmother’s Equal Rights Amendment. This amendment (HF 501/SF 473) adds something called “gender identity” to the constitution. This harms the interests of women, children, gays and lesbians. Under “gender identity” in Minnesota, women must allow some men into their private spaces, like locker rooms or domestic violence shelters. Children are told they can choose to be either a boy or a girl, and children who don’t fit into regressive stereotypes of what a boy or girl “should be” get channeled into harmful chemical or surgical modifications to their bodies.
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