NIAA reversed an earlier vote to require showing birth certificates for every student athlete to play high school sports.
Nevada has become the latest state to curtail the participation of transgender athletes in school sports after the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) reversed a 2014 policy that allowed transgender students in high schools to play for teams that align with their gender identity.
"Discrimination has no place in our city," Chris Clark, spokesperson for the NYC Parks Department, told Newsweek.
California Democrats rejected two Republican bills that would have banned transgender athletes from female sports. In a rare turn, Republicans tried to use the Democratic governor’s own words to challenge Democrats.
Kennewick School Board officials Gabe Galbraith and Micah Valentine criticized state education chief Chris Reykdal for defying Trump's executive order on trans athletes.
California lawmakers rejected a GOP bill seeking to bar transgender athletes from school sports teams amid the growing national debate.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has frozen funds to some Maine educational programs over the state's refusal to ban transgender women from sports, said a press release from Secretary Brooke Rollins.
Two transgender teenagers in New Hampshire are the first to challenge President Donald Trump's executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports.”