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State Lawmakers Push To Ban Trans Athletes From Girls' Sports

Legislators in more than 20 states have introduced bills that would ban transgender girls from playing girls' high school sports.

State Lawmakers Push To Ban Trans Athletes From Girls' Sports
AP / Rick Bowmer

President Biden signed an executive order his first day in office that bans discrimination based on gender identity in school sports and elsewhere. It re-sparked a wave of pushback from lawmakers across the country who say they need to "protect women's sports."