signed into law earlier this year barring transgender female athletes from competing in women’s sporting competitions.In an interview for HBO’s monthly show Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel last week, Idaho Rep.
Barbara Ehardt (R-Idaho Falls) insisted that she is simply trying to level the playing field for cisgender females who are at a physiological disadvantage when it comes to competing against transgender females.“I actually support people in making choices they feel are important to them in their lives, but this has to be based on one’s biology, one one’s sex,” she told correspondent Bernie Goldberg when he asked her if she had a “problem with transgender people.”Ehardt said her mission is personal, as a former athlete who played.