BC Conservatives Introduce Bill to Protect Women's Sports. BC NDP Kill It
Maintaining opportunities for female athletes to demonstrate their strength, skills, and athletic abilities, and to provide them with the opportunity to obtain recognition and accolades, university scholarships, and numerous other short- and long-term benefits that result from participating and competing in athletic endeavors in the province of British Columbia, separate from their male comparts, is just common sense.
- John Rustad
Yesterday the leader of the BC Conservative Party, John Rustad, introduced the Fairness in Women’s and Girls’ Sports Act. I’ve known this was coming for a few months and I was so excited that the bill was finally being brought forward! My esteemed friends, former Athletics Alberta president Dr. Linda Blade and powerlifter April Hutchinson were in attendance.
Rustad also posted the bill to X, if you’d like to read it yourself:
Disappointingly but not surprisingly, the BC NDP government killed the bill, voting it down 51 to 27. According to CTV News, NDP House Leader Ravi Kahlon called the bill “hateful and discriminatory.”
April helpfully provided a list of all the Yeas and Nays on X:
The good news is that the BC Conservative Party has made it loud and clear that it supports women and girls in the face of trans insanity, and they are currently surging in the polls.
People want a change. Things only went this far in the realm of sports and other areas because most did not know what was going on. As they become aware of it, they are overwhelmingly on the side of common-sense propositions like keeping female sports for women and girls.
Though Rustad’s bill was shot down, it will only continue to bolster support for him and his party and wake people up to how ideologically captured the NDP has become.
Shame n the NDP