The Ohio General Assembly narrowly failed to pass a bill that would ban biological males from competing on girls' sports teams after the bill was repeatedly amended.
, which cleared the state Senate, 23-7, before it narrowly fell in the statehouse, would also have given the governor greater power over the state Department of Education and banned discrimination against students based on COVID-19 vaccination status.
Republican state Rep. Jena Powell introduced the transgender student-athlete amendment to the bill, which was originally intended to address the Ohio Teacher Residency Program. The amendment said no school or athletic conference"shall permit individuals of the male sex to participate on athletic teams or in athletic competitions designated only for participants of the female sex."A provision in the bill that would have mandated students undergo"internal and external" exams to determine their biological sex was taken out of the bill earlier this month.
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, though he voiced support for overhauling education oversight, has previously expressed his opinion that Ohio legislators should not be addressing the issue of transgender
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