North Carolina took its first step to join more than 20 other states in banning transgender girls from playing on girls' sports teams in middle school and high school Tuesday morning.
If enacted into law, transgender girls would be prohibited from participating in sports that correspond with their gender identity under a bill that advanced Tuesday in the North Carolina Senate.
The Senate education committee advanced the "Fairness in Women's Sports Act" on a voice vote with Republicans on the panel saying such a blanket ban is necessary to protect biological girls and saying that the small number of transgender girls, estimated at 15, currently participating in North Carolina is too many.
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