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A Texas Senate committee has voted unanimously to advance a pair of bills aimed at preventing males from competing in girls’ sports.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Transgender runner CeCe Telfer will not be allowed to compete in the women’s 400-meter hurdles at U.S. Olympic trials because Telfer has not met the conditions World Athletics established in its eligibility regulations for certain women’s events.

According to reports, transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard kept a minority woman from making her Olympic debut.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) vetoed a bill that would have banned transgender athletes from competing against women and girls.

Reactions are piling up after it was reported that Laurel Hubbard, a male who identifies as a woman, will compete as a female in Tokyo.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that Laurel Hubbard, a male who identifies as a woman, will become the first trans athlete to compete in the Olympics.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday that they plan to challenge laws in West Virginia and Arkansas that prohibit trans athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports.

The Biden administration has announced that federal Title IX protections will now be expanded to cover transgender students.

LGBTQ writers in Hollywood are claiming widespread discrimination in the entertainment industry and are demanding executives take decisive steps to hire more queer, gay, and transgender writers.

The Swedish Athletics Association is looking to make sports in Sweden more inclusive for young transgendered individuals by making it easier for them to choose which gender they want to compete with.

In an interview that premiered Wednesday by the Daily Caller, DeSantis said he is “very much opposed to chemical castration of minors.”

California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner said Thursday on ABC’s “The View” said laws regarding transgender athletes were “a very small issue in the state of California.”

Transgender actor Laverne Cox attacked the right this month, claiming that conservatives are “dehumanizing” trans kids by working to ban them from competing in sports under their chosen gender. The Orange Is the New Black star went on the attack

U.S. Ed Sec. Miguel Cardona is backing biological men who say they are “transgender women” to compete in sports against biological women.

Athlete Selina Soule praised Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for signing into law on Tuesday the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.

Belgian Olympic weightlifter Anna Vanbellinghen, who was born a woman, is blasting the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing a transgender athlete born a man to compete as a woman in the coming world games in Tokyo. The IOC has

The NCAA is getting slammed for holding tournaments in states that have laws that require people to play sports based on their bio sex.

Caitlyn Jenner previously said sports should be determined by bio sex but now it depends on if one “transitions” at “a very young age.”

USA Today is under fire after altering an op-ed written by a Connecticut girl explaining the disadvantage she and other female athletes face in competing against boys claiming to be transgender girls in track and field, adding an editor’s note to the top apologizing for “hurtful” language used in the piece and altering her words, specifically targeting the word “male.”

A Gallup poll shows 62 percent of Americans believe athletes should play sports based on their biological sex and not “gender identity.”

Students at the University of Florida agreed that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) should protect women’s sports, as they believe there is a difference between biological males and females.

Scores of angry leftists blasted USA Today on Twitter Saturday after the paper published an op-ed critical of trans athletes.

The Hulu streaming service has produced a documentary featuring three high school biological boys who are competing against biological girls.

The NCAA has caved after making loud proclamations in April that it could pull events from states with limits on transgender athletes.

At least nine trans individuals — seven biological men and two biological women — are hoping to compete at the Olympics in July in Tokyo.

Sarah Silverman blasted CA gubernatorial candidate and former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner for agreeing with restrictions on transgender athletes.

A former Olympic weightlifter claims that female athletes are being told to “be quiet” about transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard ahead of his Olympic debut.

The NCAA has reached a delicate moment: It must decide whether to punish states that have passed laws limiting the participation of transgender athletes by barring them from hosting its softball and baseball tournaments.

A man who goes by the name Laurel Hubbard could be the first transgender woman to compete in the Olympics this summer in Japan.

Two new bills in Ohio would require students to participate in sports corresponding with their birth gender.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” host Joy Reid reacted to Republican California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner opposing allowing transgender people who are biologically male to compete in women’s sports by stating that Republicans “don’t actually care about fairness

The GOP-led Kansas State Senate was unable to override Democrat Governor Laura Kelly’s veto of a bill that would limit transgender athletes.

Republican candidate Caitlyn Jenner was attacked over the weekend by leftwing personalities regarding Jenner’s transgender statement about gender fairness in sports.

The Florida legislature passed a bill that would ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s governor signed a bill Wednesday that bans transgender athletes from competing in female sports in middle and high schools and colleges.

Democrat Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday on social media that he will veto the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.