Arizona Senate Sends Women's Sports Measure to 2026 Ballot as Kaylie Ray Rebukes 16-12 Vote Opponents
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 16
Arizona Senate Sends Women's Sports Measure to 2026 Ballot as Kaylie Ray Rebukes 16-12 Vote Opponents
2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 16
Summary
HCR 2003 cleared the Arizona Senate 16-12 last week, sending a measure barring biological males from girls' and women's sports to voters this fall.
Kaylie Ray, the former Utah State volleyball player who clashed with Democratic Sen. Catherine Miranda in a viral March hearing, said the vote showed "what the people want" and accused Miranda of doubling down in silence.
Miranda voted against the resolution, backed a failed amendment from Sen. Analise Ortiz, and opposed final passage after the proposal had advanced from committee on a 4-3 vote in March.
The measure would require school teams to be designated male, female or coed by biological sex and would restrict female-designated teams and certain athletic private spaces to that sex.
For Ray, the fight is personal: she says competing against a trans athlete at San Jose State caused trauma, and she is now part of a lawsuit while awaiting Supreme Court rulings in related women's sports cases.