URGENT: Stop the Ban Day of Action in our State Capitol on Wednesday, March 26th!
We especially need trans children and youth, parents of young transgender and cis Pennsylvanians, healthcare professionals, coaches, and cisgender girl student athletes to be there!
Thank you very much for your support. We need to make our voices clearer than ever before: Trans girls are girls and deserve every opportunity to be safe and thrive. SB 9 is a cruel ban on trans girls playing sports that is rooted in hatred, ignorance, political theater, and toxic misinformation.
On Wednesday, March 26th, the Pennsylvania State Senate Education Committee is slated to vote on a bill to ban transgender girls in Pennsylvania from school athletics: in all K-12 public schools and public colleges + universities, as well as private schools at all levels if in a league with public schools. This bill passed the State Senate in 2022, but was not introduced in the 2023-2024 session. In this new 2025-2026 session, there are 18 Senators out of 50 directly sponsoring the bill.
We must now specifically organize communications with state lawmakers in key legislative districts. PYC has identified six Senators as the highest priority to provide education on trans youth inclusion — please click here for more information to write to them.
WE NEED YOU TO BE IN HARRISBURG ON WEDNESDAY.
We must have a strong presence of supporters in the Capitol as they vote on this bill. We need to press on to meet with our lawmakers.
Please complete the form below ASAP. We will then reply with logistics for the day and information on how to contact your legislators. We will work with as many of you as we can to arrange in-person or virtual meetings directly with your lawmakers on or around Wednesday.
To be clear: with a Governor's veto and the current makeup of our state legislature, there is no chance of a ban becoming law right now. However, it is devestating to have this bill debated on the Senate floor with dehumanizing language in a broad attack against trans youth. Trans young people would have to witness horrible things about them in the media, bullies may be more emboldened to attack trans students, and school boards could feel empowered to pass their own bans. We have to all we can to push back against this legislation.
You may contact PYC by email here with any questions or ideas.
Please complete this form ASAP so we can immediately start organizing outreach with your state legislators. This form will close on Tuesday, March 25th, 2025, at 5:00pm.
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