With the signing of the two bills, North Dakota joins 19 other states that have adopted bans on transgender student-athletes.
From left: Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum at a governors meeting with Joe Biden in Washington, DC, on Feb. 10, 2023.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum signed into law a pair of bills prohibiting trans students from participating in women’s and girls’ sports from kindergarten through college on Tuesday, joining 19 other states that have adopted bans on transgender student-athletes. The laws require schools to designate teams by the"biological state of being female or male based on an individual's nonambiguous sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous hormone profile at birth" — language that advocates say leads to the legal erasure of transgender, gender-nonconforming, and intersex people.from playing on women's and girls' teams, but they do not carry equivalent restrictions on participation in men's and boys' sports.
Both bills were passed by veto-proof majorities in the Legislature. If not blocked by the courts, the laws will
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