GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — GOP gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon delivered remarks at Briggs Park in Grand Rapids Wednesday afternoon.
During the event, Dixon introduced her proposed Women’s Sports Fairness Act.
The act, Dixon said, would specify that sports teams that are designated for women and girls would "not be open to people born as biological males."
At the event, Dixon was flanked by parents and student-athletes, all wearing shirts that read "Protect Women's Sports."
Dixon implied that because men are biologically larger than females, no one who was born male, even a transgender person, should be allowed to compete in women's sports.
Despite claiming that this is happening in Michigan schools, Dixon couldn't given an example, says the FOX 17 reporter on scene.
Activists in attendance say examples of this in the U.S. are few and far between.
The Women Sports Fairness Act would apply to all public schools in Michigan.
Earlier, on Tuesday, Dixon introduced another idea for school policy, in the form of a proposal preventing the discussion gender identity and sexual orientation in schools.
“We are here today to propose our Age Appropriate Classroom Instruction Act," she said. "This act will ensure that school districts to ensure that their schools do not provide classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in grades K-3.”
If implemented, the new guidelines would also require schools to post curriculum online for parents to read.
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