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Cy Neff in Cheyenne

As Wyoming slides further to the right, legislators double down on trans bills

Man addresses news conference
Wyoming house speaker Chip Neiman, a Republican and member of the chamber's Freedom caucus, addresses a news conference in Cheyenne. Photograph: Mead Gruver/AP

When Wyoming legislators in 2022 passed a law banning trans girls from competing in middle and high school girls’ sports, the Cowboy State, by its governor’s own estimate, had a grand total of four transgender student athletes competing within its boundaries.

Still, in this year’s legislative session, which wrapped up on Friday, trans athletes were again a focus of lawmakers. They introduced bills to extend the ban on trans women in athletics to intercollegiate sports and ban universities from competing against teams with trans women.

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