Chad Pergram reports on the Republican bill that protects women from competing against transgender athletes in sports. The North Carolina House on Wednesday passed legislation that would prohibit biological males who identify as female from playing on girls' sports teams in middle school, high school and college.
Lawmakers easily approved the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, which would require athletes to play on teams that match their sex as determined by "reproductive biology and genetics at birth," by a 73-39 vote, with three Democrats supporting the measure.
Republican state Rep. Tricia Cotham, who recently gave the GOP a veto-proof supermajority by announcing a high-profile defection from the Democratic Party, also voted in favor of the bill.
The legislation now moves to the state Senate, which is considering its own version of the same bill and also has a Republican supermajority.