Human Rights Campaign. Similar bills have been signed into law this year in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and the governor of West Virginia is expected to sign one as well.
The governor of South Dakota has issued executive orders to this effect, and Idaho enacted such a law last year and is facing a court challenge to it.“A public K-12 school may not allow a biological female to participate on a male team if there is a female team in a sport,” the Alabama legislation reads. “A public K-12 school may never allow a biological male to participate on a female team.” It does allow for coed teams.The bill, like similar ones introduced around the country, is based on the disputed notion that transgender girls — “biological males,” in the.