State law that limits biological boys to participation in girls sports.
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State law that limits biological boys to participation in girls sports.
The legislation would bar transgender men from competing on men’s college sports teams and transgender women from joining women’s college athletic teams.
The bill is one step closer to the governor’s desk. If it becomes law, Texas will join at least five other states that have passed such legislation.
Similar bills failed to pass during the regular session earlier this year.
The Bostock holding was limited to employment-discrimination context, but the Department of Education is now trying to apply it to sports teams, single-sex bathrooms, and dress codes.
The proposal would prohibit students from participating in a sport “that is designated for the biological sex opposite to the student’s biological sex as determined at the student’s birth.”