California Dem compares 'Save Girls Sports' law to Nazi Germany, as two trans athlete ban bills fail to pass

California Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez's bill to ban trans athletes from girls' sports will get a vote on Tuesday, just days after U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon warned the state of federal funding cuts if it did not address the issue.

The California state legislature failed to pass two separate bills aimed at protecting girls sports from trans inclusion on Tuesday. During debate for one of the bills, a Democratic state lawmaker compared the proposals to practices employed by Nazi Germany in the Holocaust.

California assembly member Rick Chavez Zbur made the comparison while arguing against the first bill, AB 89. 

"This is really reminiscent to me of what happened in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. We are moving towards autocracy in this country. In Nazi Germany, transgender people were persecuted, barred from public life," Zbur said.

Zbur was then interrupted by mediators who protested his comparison and argued it was out of order. But Zbur continued his analogy. 

"This is about this, this is about this bill," Zbur argued. "They were barred from public life. They were detransitioned. They were imprisoned and killed in concentration camps. And the way it started was the same kind of things that are happening in this country by the Trump administration."

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California assembly member Rick Chavez Zbur made the comparison while arguing against the first bill, AB 89. (Getty Images)

California Republican assembly member Kate Sanchez, who proposed AB 89, said she heard audible gasps in the assembly chamber during Zbur's argument, and that one attendee had to excuse herself from the room.

"There was a lot of gasps and shock," Sanchez told Fox News Digital. 

"It was very