AUSTIN — In his clearest sign of support for specific legislation targeting the LGBTQ community this session, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he wants state...
AUSTIN — In his clearest sign of support for specific legislation targeting the LGBTQ community this session, Texassays he wants state lawmakers to ban transgender athletes from competing in collegiate sports.
Speaking in front of a Saturday gathering of the Young America’s Foundation in Dallas, Abbott pledged that the Texas Legislature will soon pass a law requiring transgender college athletes to compete according to their sex assigned at birth. “This next session, we will pass a law prohibiting biological men to compete against women in college sports [sic],” Abbott told host Scott Walker, the former governor of Wisconsin, according toThe term transgender refers to someone who identifies as a gender that is different from what they were assigned at birth. A transgender man, for example, may have been assigned “female” at birth but identifies as a male.
Two GOP lawmakers — Spring Rep. Valoree Swanson and Galveston Sen. Mayes Middleton — have filed bills restricting trans collegiate athletes this session. Thousands of bills are typically filed every session, but the governor’s support will dramatically boost the likelihood that this or something like it will pass.
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