Texas House passes controversial transgender sports bill

The Texas House of Representatives passed a arguable measure connected Thursday that would prohibition transgender students from participating successful schoolhouse sports based connected their biologic enactment astatine birth.

CBS News and NBC News reported that the Republican-controlled House voted 76-54 to walk House Bill 25. It's present heading to the Senate, wherever it is expected to pass.

In a statement, LGBTQ+ governmental advocacy enactment Equality Texas said the passing of the measure is "a hateful, targeted onslaught connected transgender radical surviving successful Texas."

"Extremists successful our Legislature person continuously leveraged cruel rhetoric and rampant misinformation to coordinate this onslaught connected the transgender assemblage — young children successful peculiar — and person sent a wide connection that Texas is not a harmless spot for them to live," said Ricardo Martinez, the organization's Chief Executive Officer.

The bill, which Rep. Valoree Swanson introduced, would let transgender antheral athletes to play connected an lone men's squad if determination were nary different options disposable for the sport, CBS Sports reported

According to NBC News, the bill's co-author Rep. Stephanie Klick said the measure was astir fairness to girls.

After the measure was passed, critics weighed in, including the Texas ACLU, which tweeted that the "fight doesn't extremity tonight."