Legislative leaders quickly called a veto override session.
as a campaign issue in states ranging from Missouri to Pennsylvania.
In Utah, there are four transgender players out of 85,000 who are competing in school sports after being ruled eligible by the state's high school athletic association. Only one competes in girls sports. There are no public concerns about competitive advantages. Supporters of a ban argue, amid growing transgender visibility, more players could soon be in girls leagues around the country and eventually dominate, changing the nature of girls sports.
Sue Robbins, who serves on the group's Transgender Advisory Council, said the last-minute change came as a blow."We were trying to find a middle ground," she said."Then all of a sudden this comes about ... it was kind of crushing." Much of the discussion since the bill's passage has centered on legal challenges that even backers say could thwart the ban from being enacted.
The sponsor of the legislation, Republican Rep. Kera Birkeland, said after it passed that she once preferred the compromise commission but eventually came around to social conservatives' view that a ban was more clear-cut, especially because the transgender community shuddered at the idea of subjecting a small subset of kids to review and scrutiny.
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