DeSantis signs bill banning transgender girls, women from playing on female school sports teams
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 1028 into law Tuesday, which bans transgender girls and women from playing on female school sports teams.
The governor signed the bill, which includes the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, during a news conference at Trinity Christian Academy in Jacksonville.
Under the new law, a transgender student athlete would have to affirm her biological sex by supplying proof such as a birth certificate.
The measure stripped some of the most contentious elements from a proposal approved by the House earlier this year, including a provision that would have required transgender athletes in high schools and colleges to undergo testosterone or genetic testing, as well as submit to having their genitalia examined.