PUSHING FOR COMPROMISE - Lawmakers may reach a compromise with LGBTQ rights groups over a controversial bill on transgender student athletes.
FOX 13 News has learned Governor Spencer Cox met with House Bill 11's sponsors, the LGBTQ rights group Equality Utah and Senate President J. Stuart Adams on Wednesday night, following a close 4-3 vote to pass the bill out of a Senate committee. The governor has been pushing for a compromise on the bill.
"There’s probably some things that maybe need to be looked at. I’m not sure about the criteria that is listed in the bill as far as it was a may look at some different attributes, I’m not sure they need to be listed or not. Whether they get pulled or changed, I’m not sure. It is a great bill but probably some refining it has to do," Sen. Adams, R-Layton, told reporters.
"I think it’s difficult enough to say we’re going to put a committee together where we’re going to have people in front of that committee and get approval to participate in sport, which I already have concerns about," Dr. Metzler told FOX 13 News."Then you take that and say well then you have to provide information about bone density and weight and the length of your legs, what have you, that just creates a barrier that people don’t want to go through.
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