Testimony of Elizabeth Tang Senior Counsel for Education & Workplace Justice

We believe that ending all forms of sex-based discrimination and harassment is crucial to protecting the opportunities of all students in education and for the rest of their lives. [...] Transgender girls and women already live and go to school in South Dakota, where the current trans-inclusive polices have benefited all girls and women, including cisgender girls and women. [...] Numerous women’s rights organizations and elite athletes have also repeatedly voiced their unequivocal support of transgender inclusion in athletics: • In March 2021, 94 women’s rights and gender justice organizations expressed their support of transgender girls and women athletes.54 • In February 2021, the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education— which includes organizations like Amer. [...] 10 The National Women’s Law Center supports the full inclusion of transgender girls and women in sports because we recognize, as courts and scientists overwhelmingly have stated, that transgender girls and women are girls and women. [...] None of the threats fearmongered by supporters of the restroom bills came to pass58 because transgender girls and women use restrooms for the same reason as everyone else: to go to the restroom and go about their day.