RALEIGH, N.C. — A bill that would restrict transgender athletes in women’s sports passed the state Senate Tuesday.
House Bill 574, dubbed the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” would ban transgender women and girls from playing on women’s sports teams in middle and high school, as well as in colleges and universities. The bill passed Senate committees last week after amendments that removed restrictions on male sports teams and on collegiate intramural sports.
“This is a very common sense bill, it is not against anybody,” state Sen. Kevin Corbin, a Republican from Cherokee County, said on the Senate floor. “It simply prevents biological males from playing girl’s sports.”
