Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf Vows to Block Transgender Sports Bill

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday said he would veto a bill seeking to ban transgender athletes from competing in school-sponsored girls’ sports.

The proposed legislation, like many of its kind, holds that forcing women to “compete against biological males playing on women’s sports teams” is a violation of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in education.

“Title IX was designed to stop discrimination and create equal athletic opportunities for women,” the five female Republican state legislators sponsoring the bill said in a statement. “Having separate biologically-specific teams, which Title IX protects, furthers efforts to promote women’s equality.”

State Rep. Martina White, one of the bill’s primary sponsors and a former college field hockey player, said the inherent physical differences between boys and girls give male-born transgender athletes an unfair advantage over their female counterparts.

“Science and common sense tell us that males are generally bigger, faster and stronger than females,” said White, reported The Morning Call. “They have larger hearts and lungs, denser bones and stronger muscles. These are all advantages that cannot be undone. That’s why we have women’s sports as a separate category.”

Wolf, a Democrat, vowed to veto the bill if it is forwarded to him.

“I’ll veto this discriminatory ban if it reaches my desk,” Wolf wrote on Facebook…….more at:

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Horowitz: Shocking report: 55% of Brits have antibodies, despite 12 months of restrictions

You mean we did all that for nothing?

Originally, we were told that governments can assume unprecedented control over our lives, businesses, and even our own faces for the goal of not overrunning hospitals. A year later, as we come increasingly close to herd immunity, not only are hospitals in no danger of being overrun, but it turns out that people have likely contracted the virus at a rate that would have occurred without any of these restrictions – and their calamitous damage to society. Twelve months later, it's all pain and no gain.

We've always known that the number of confirmed COVID cases in a given region is only a fraction of the likely infection rate. Now, according to Great Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS), 54.7% of people in England in a random sample of 30,000 have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, which includes people who have had been infected or have been vaccinated. Those are the sort of numbers we were promised would happen only if we just "let the virus rip" without any non-pharmaceutical interventions, aka lockdowns and mask-wearing. But it turns out that the virus was always gonna virus, regardless of what hocus-pocus was thrown in front of it.

The survey, conducted from December 7 to March 14, also revealed the antibody levels in the other areas of Great Britain: 50.5% in Wales, 49.3% in Northern Ireland, and 42.6% in Scotland. As the Daily Mail observes, "The figure is likely to be even higher now because millions more have been vaccinated since the blood tests were conducted a fortnight ago, and it takes about two weeks for immunity to kick in."

Also, many people don't produce antibodies or their antibodies wane quickly because the T cells warded off the virus without major symptoms. It is therefore likely that if 55% of Brits have antibodies, a supermajority of citizens are already immune.

We have no way of knowing how much of the seroprevelance is from the vaccinations and how much is from infection, but many other countries have had aggressive vaccination programs and still do not have as few cases as Great Britain currently has. That tells you there is a lot of built-up immunity from the earlier waves of infection.

Here are the latest death numbers from Worldometer.

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