Regarding Senator Miranda‘s views expressed at the hearing on keeping boys out of sports for girls, showers, locker rooms, and bathrooms.

I have been fighting against allowing boys in these areas which should be only for girls, for as long as it has been an issue. I am in court defending against a lawsuit seeking to permit boys in sports for girls because the Attorney General refuses to do so, even though it is normally her duty to defend against a lawsuit seeking to declare an Arizona statute unconstitutional.

I testified in favor of a proposed statute to ban boys from these areas which should be only for girls, had a Senate hearing and had a dialogue with Senator Miranda. What shocked me was her treatment of a college female athlete who favored the ban. Senator Miranda argued that her own willingness to play against boys made her more competitive than this college student.

From what we have been able to determine, Senator Miranda played in high school but not college. The student athlete was a college athlete in division one.

The newspapers have been full of examples of girls who worked hard at their sports to make the team or maybe get a scholarship or compete for the Olympics but then had to play against a boy with the natural muscular advantages of males, and their dreams were shattered and they were devastated. It is also unsafe. There are many examples of girls injured by transsexuals including one with a brain injury because she was hit so hard in the face with a volleyball by a transsexual with the natural male muscular advantages.

It is hard to understand how Senator Miranda, a woman herself, could defend such things.

Tom Horne