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U.S. House Republicans pass trans sports ban ... but it will go nowhere
2023-04-20
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On April 20, the Republican-controlled House passed legislation that would ban transgender women and girls from competing in female school athletics.
According to NBC News, The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, authored by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., would amend Title IX to ban schools that receive federal funding from allowing people "whose sex is male" to participate in sports designated for women or girls.
The bill "makes school sports less fair by singling out and banning transgender women and girls as young as kindergarten from participating on school sports teams with their friends," said Rep. Mark Takano, D-California, a leader of the Equality Caucus, which advocates for LGBTQ rights on Capitol Hill.
The bill passed on a 219-203 vote, but it will go nowhere in the U.S. Senate, which Democrats control. The White House has also said President Joe Biden would veto the measure, which "targets people for who they are and therefore is discriminatory," if it were to make it to his desk.
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