Soon, Alabama will be able to legally define what constitutes a man or a woman.
Rep. Susan DuBose, the sponsor of HB111, which aims to define sex terms in what she claims is the time-honored, traditional way, stated, “We feel that it needs to be defined because not everyone has the same version of the meaning anymore.”
The state House and Senate are considering bills that would define what constitutes a “boy,” “girl,” “male,” and “female” in accordance with state law and permit local and state governments to designate areas as single-sex areas in accordance with those definitions. According to the bill, there are only two sexes and that although men and women are not physically alike, they are equal.
Rep. Dubose stated that the purpose of her bill is to safeguard areas designated for women, such as the University of Alabama’s female-only dorm and women’s locker rooms, by imposing restrictions onNothing changes as a result of this bill alone. It does not produce spaces for same sex. People will use the same restrooms today and tomorrow, according to her.
The bill states that ova, or female reproduction cells, are produced by a female body at some point in life. This includes individuals who would have produced ova if they had not experienced a genetic or reproductive anomaly or accident. Similar definitions apply to males: those who have produced or would have produced sperm at some point.tying them to women possessing female reproductive cells from birth.
The measure claims that women’s rights and resources have been jeopardized, and that the existence of private, single-sex spaces has been threatened by inconsistent court rulings and policy initiatives regarding sex discrimination and common sex-based words.
Although people with congenital or medically verifiable differences in sex development must be accommodated under federal disability law, the bill states that intersex individuals are not a “third sex.”
In 2023, Dubose sponsored a bill that defined gender roles and was dubbed the “what is a woman bill.” She said that the revised and simplified bill this year focuses on definitions.
