May 6, 2025
Chair Gordon, Chair Lewis, and Members of the Joint Committee on Education:
As a statewide grassroots advocacy group fighting for a more equitable, just, sustainable, and democratic commonwealth, Progressive Massachusetts urges you to give an adverse report to H.584, S.350, and H.737.
These bills would restrict the participation of trans student athletes in school sports, undermining their rights, safety, and dignity.
We at Progressive Mass are proud of MA’s civil rights protections for the trans community, which were overwhelmingly upheld on the ballot in 2018. MA voters were and are clear: we believe that our trans friends and neighbors deserve to be treated with basic dignity and respect.
The trans community has been under attack by the hateful administration in DC, and a swift rejection of these bills is an important way to show that we stand by trans youth and against bullying.
If the state legislators supporting these three bills feel the need to obsess over the genitalia of teenagers, then we kindly recommend that they seek help and leave that obsession out of the Massachusetts State House.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Cohn
Policy Director
Progressive Massachusetts
