States advance bills protecting girls' sports as Biden says no at federal level

Grace Christian Academy Headmaster Stephen Schultz joined 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss his op-ed blowing the whistle on how educators are promoting controversial issues like transgenderism in the classroom. 

States across the country are taking the lead in keeping biological males out of girls' sports with a flurry of recent legislation while President Biden's White House at the federal level slams such measures as "discrimination" against transgender students.

North Carolina on Tuesday took a step closer to joining a growing number of states in banning transgender student athletes from playing on teams that align with their gender identity, requiring them instead to compete against those with the same biological sex.

The state Senate advanced out of its Education Committee 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." 

North Carolina's House is pursuing its own version of the same bill to make transgender athletes play on sports teams associated with their sex. A similar measure introduced this month would prevent the "male sex" from participating in "interscholastic athletic activities designated for females, women, or girls."

Multiple states have banned transgender student athletes from participating on the teams that align with their gender identity. (AP Photo/Samuel Metz, File)

BIDEN TO VETO GOP BILL PROTECTING WOMEN'S SPORTS, CALLS IT 'DISCRIMINATION' AGAINST TRANSGENDER STUDENTS

Republicans in both chambers now hold a veto-proof supermajority thanks to a recent high-profile defection of a Democratic legislator, meaning the bills could potentially become law even if Democratic Gov. Roy