Text of MI HB 4546 (2023)
Recreation: athletics and sports; publicly funded individual sports programs that provide separate programs for males and females; require athletes to be scored according to their biological sex. Creates new act.
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HOUSE BILL NO. 4546
A bill to require awards, rankings, and records of
outcomes in separate female and male sporting events to be categorized
consistent with each competitor's biological sex.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 1. This act may
be cited as the "female athletics integrity of records (FAIR) act".
Sec. 2. As used in
this act:
(a) "Biological sex"
means the state of being female or the state of being male, as an
innate, objective biological condition
determined at the conception of the human being.
(b) "Sporting event" means an athletic event to
which all of the following apply:
(i)
Individuals compete individually.
(ii)
There are separate competitions for females and males.
(iii)
The event is in whole or in part publicly funded.
Sec. 3. Though an
individual in a sporting event participates in the competition designated for
members of the opposite biological sex,
official awards, rankings, and records of results shall nonetheless be
categorized consistent with each competitor's biological
sex.