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Trans equality wins in Kansas as legislature fails to override sports ban veto
Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a transgender sports ban was upheld in the state house.
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Tennessee passes additional penalties for trans sports ban
Schools could lose funding if they don’t ban trans kids from sports hard enough.
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Kansas’s Laura Kelly is the 4th governor this year to veto a trans sports ban
The bill would have let school districts figure out how to see if a student-athlete is trans or cis. Laura Kelly said “no” to the whole scheme.
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Kentucky overrides governor’s veto & bans 1 trans girl from playing field hockey
“She started her school’s field hockey team, recruited all of the other team members…. Now Kentucky lawmakers have intervened to stop her from playing with her friends her eighth-grade year.”
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Teacher gets violent threats & resigns after writing supportive message for LGBTQ students
“If y’all protected human rights like you protect sports, this world would be a better place over night.”
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Georgia Republicans snuck in a last-minute trans sports ban that is expected to become law
The legislation was “shoved through in the closing minutes of the session without a full explanation” and was “so rushed that some lawmakers may not have known what they were doing.”
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Oklahoma gov signed bill banning trans girls from school sports while surrounded by cis girls
Outside his office, a trans protestor held a sign that said: “How does it feel bullying kids needing support?”
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Arizona lawmakers passed two laws attacking trans youth as part of “discriminatory trifecta”
“It’s obvious this bill is just an excuse to discriminate against transgender girls,” a 13-year-old trans girl testified against one of the bills.
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Utah’s Republican governor vetoes transgender sports ban
“I am not an expert on transgenderism,” Gov. Spencer Cox wrote. “When in doubt however, I always try to err on the side of kindness, mercy, and compassion.”
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Indiana’s GOP governor vetoes proposed transgender sports ban
Gov. Eric Holcomb criticized the anti-transgender bill as vague, unnecessary, and possibly unconstitutional.