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Amid a long-running legal battle, the Florida House appears poised to pass a bill that would allow high-school speakers to offer remarks, including prayers, over public-address systems before athletic championship games.
The House on Tuesday took up the bill (HB 1027), sponsored by Rep. Webster Barnaby, R -Deltona, and positioned it for a vote. The measure comes during a lawsuit over a decision by the Florida High School Athletic Association in 2016 to block Cambridge Christian School of Tampa from offering a prayer over the public-address system before a football championship game at Orlandoâs Camping World Stadium.
When Republicans target trans girls, cisgender girls suffer too
The proposed bans are targeting a minuscule percentage of student athletes while also introducing archaic barriers to all female athletes.
This year, about 30 states have introduced Republican bills that would ban trans girls from girls sports.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images
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While the country waited Tuesday afternoon for the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, a Florida state Senate committee quietly killed a controversial bill that would have banned transgender girls and women from playing girls interscholastic and women s intercollegiate sports.
Sex verification of female athletes has a long and horrid history in sports.
Florida Senate running out of time to pass transgender legislation bill theledger.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theledger.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Florida s proposed ban on transgender female athletes allows examinations of students reproductive anatomy
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Florida s House passed a bill last week that would bar transgender athletes from participating in girls and women s scholastic sports. The legislation, modeled after a bill passed in Idaho, is one of dozens of similar efforts by GOP lawmakers in 30 states. But Florida s bill goes even further by giving schools the power to conduct genital examinations,
Under the legislation, a school or rival athlete could file a complaint if they suspect a competitor in a female sporting event was not assigned the female gender at birth, and the athlete would then have to prove she was born a biological girl. They could prove their birth gender via a genetic test, a test of their testosterone levels, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy by a medical professional, the