The U.S. House of Representatives passed Republican-sponsored legislation Thursday that effectively would ban transgender girls from competing in women’s athletics at schools.
April 20 The U.S. House of Representatives passed Republican-sponsored legislation Thursday that effectively would ban transgender girls from competing in women’s athletics at schools.
The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which would bar federal funding for schools that allow transgender girls to play on women’s sports teams, passed the House by a 219-203 vote.
The bill would update Title XI regulations, which prohibit sex-based discrimination in schools, to define a student’s sex as “based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.
