TX Senate panel advances bills limiting the school sports teams that transgender athletes can join lmtonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lmtonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Texas home-school students are as close as they’ve ever been to getting the chance to compete in public school sports, despite vigorous objections from coaches and others worried about creating an uneven playing field.
House members could vote as early as today on a bill that would allow school districts and charter schools to choose whether home-schooled students can participate in academic, fine and performing arts and athletic activities regulated by the state’s governing body, the University Interscholastic League.
A companion bill is expected to be heard by the Senate’s Committee on Education in the coming week.
The bill would prevent transgender Texas children from joining school sports teams that match their gender identity
Megan Munce, The Texas Tribune
May 5, 2021
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Kameron Davis, 22, stands with a Transgender Pride Flag hanging in the hallway at Thrive Youth Center, a shelter for homeless LGBTQ youth, where he lives at Haven for Hope in San Antonio on Friday, May 31, 2019.Lisa Krantz, Staff photographer / Lisa Krantz
A bill that would prevent transgender Texas children from joining school sports teams that match their gender identity failed to advance out of a House committee Tuesday, signaling potential trouble for one of several anti-LGBTQ bills in the Legislature.
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An anti-trans bill in Texas that would ve banned trans girls from women s sports teams has stalled. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato)
An anti-trans bill in Texas that would ban trans students from playing sports on the team corresponding to their gender identity has failed to advance out of a House committee.
On Tuesday (4 May), Senate Bill 29 was taken up by the Texas House Public Education committee, which is made up of six Democrats and seven Republicans.
SB29 is the first anti-trans Senate bill to get a committee vote in the lower chamber, but it failed to get the requisite seven votes to move forward, instead receiving a 6-5 vote in favour.
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