8-year-old Houston woman testifies towards TX transgender invoice: ‘I believe they’re simply afraid of us’

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A invoice proscribing transgender student-athlete participation has handed the Texas Home and Senate and is now heading to Governor Greg Abbott.

Gov. Abbott is predicted to signal the invoice, which requires athletes to play on sports activities groups that align with the genders listed on their start certificates.

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Proponents say it’ll shield ladies from having to compete with robust and greater athletes. However transgender athletes say it unfairly targets them.

Sunny Bryant mentioned she’s identified who she is since she was 4.

“I’m a woman,” the 8-year-old mentioned.

“This isn’t faux. It is not a part. It is actual. There is a distinction between saying, ‘I need to be a woman,’ and ‘I’m a woman,’ and that was made very clear by her,” Sunny’s mom, Bekah defined.

Sunny’s household has been supportive, and most of her younger mates do not ask a lot. They’ve all the time performed sports activities like baseball and gymnastics collectively.

However, when the Texas legislature started debating a invoice that may make it in order that Sunny will solely be capable to play on boys’ sports activities groups, she and her mom went to Austin.

They each testified.

“It was type of emotional and I used to be actually nervous,” Sunny defined.

“It is a answer searching for an issue. We’ve not had any lawsuits within the state of Texas. We’ve not had any circumstances. The inhabitants of trans youngsters is so small,” Bekah mentioned. “Which means she’d be the one woman within the locker room, the one woman on the workforce. And he or she will not have that group.”

“What’s in my coronary heart is that I believe I ought to be capable to play sport, as a result of I am a woman, too,” Sunny mentioned. “I believe they’re simply afraid of us and so they want extra trans folks of their life.”