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Two new bills in Ohio would require students to participate in sports corresponding with their birth gender.

The GOP-led Kansas State Senate was unable to override Democrat Governor Laura Kelly’s veto of a bill that would limit transgender athletes.

Republican candidate Caitlyn Jenner was attacked over the weekend by leftwing personalities regarding Jenner’s transgender statement about gender fairness in sports.

The Florida legislature passed a bill that would ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports.

Democrat Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday on social media that he will veto the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Republican Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday signed legislation restricting transgender students from participating in K-12 sports, making Alabama the latest conservative state to ban transgender girls from playing on female sports teams.

Former public school teacher and current Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) said Tuesday “modern science” recognizes there are “six” sexes.

Hulu has acquired the transgender teen sports documentary “Changing the Game” and is planning to start streaming the movie June 1 as part of LGBT Pride month.

The Texas Senate approved legislation limiting transgender athletes to competing only in categories that correspond to their birth gender.

The Florida House passed a bill that would prohibit school athletic teams and sports designated for girls and women from admitting males.

Texas is one of more than two dozen states with proposed legislation to protect female athletes from transgender competition as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) threatens to remove sporting events from states if these bills become law. As Breitbart

The NCAA is threatening to boycott states attempting to protect female athletes from transgender competition, including Oklahoma.

The NCAA sided with transgender athletes on Monday, saying they will no longer hold events in states that aren’t “free of discrimination.”

PA Gov. Tom Wolf said that he would not sign any bill that would block trans athletes from competing in the gender category of their choice.

Soccer star Megan Rapinoe joined the effort to force children’s sports in America to allow transgender athletes to play sports.

Athlete activists and activist groups have joined in an effort to force Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) to boycott the state of Georgia after the state government passed an election reform bill.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a law Friday banning transgender athletes from participating in girls’ sports, making it the third state this year to approve a measure many critics warn would prompt costly lawsuits and hurt transgender youth.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Friday responded to the heat she has taken from conservatives for partially vetoing a bill that would ban transgender athletes who were born male from competing in women’s sports.

Gov. Kristi Noem (R) released a statement Wednesday conveying herself to be a victim of “conservative cancel culture,” pushing back against conservatives who believe she bowing to the NCAA regarding biological men in woman’s sports.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed his displeasure Tuesday with “letting biological men compete in women’s sports.”

Monday on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson and Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) debated the merits of legislation banning transgender participation in female sports.

South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem returned a bill designed to prevent biological men from competing in biological women’s sports back to her state legislature on Friday for changes.

Transgender industry doctors condemned a bill that seeks to ban males from competing in women’s sports and from using females’ locker rooms.

Florida is the one of more than 20 states where lawmakers are crafting bills to prevent biological men from participating in women’s sports.

A Connecticut high school girl recently lamented that her standing in track has been diminished because of boys competing as transgender girls

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signed a bill that restricts transgender athletes to only competing in sports of their birth gender.

The issue of transgender woman competing against biological females is being debated across the country and support for a ban is growing.

Vanita Gupta, Biden’s nominee to be Associate Attorney General at the DOJ refused to say whether females should compete against males.

Arkansas joins some 20 states that are crafting laws designed to protect female athletes from competing against biological men.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, will sign a bill keeping girls’ and women’s sports to biological females only.

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves will sign a bill into law protecting female athletes in high schools and colleges from competing against men.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi House voted Wednesday to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls’ or women’s sports teams in the state’s schools and universities. The bill heads to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves in the next several days, and he is expected to sign it into law.

The majority of Americans appear to disagree with the left’s vehement pursuit of overhauling school sports, rejecting the prospect of allowing transgender students to participate on sports teams of the gender they identify with rather than their biological gender, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Tuesday found.

On Monday the U.S. Senate confirmed Miguel Cardona, President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the U.S. Education Department, by a vote of 64-33.

Female NCAA athlete Linnea Saltz said during a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Saturday that the concept of “inclusion” should not lead to the “exclusion of biological women.”

Joe Biden’s DOJ withdrew support for a lawsuit brought by three female high schools athletes over competing against biological men in sports.