The NCAA this week — as Texas lawmakers continued to debate a number of anit-trans measures — announced that it will only hold college championship games in states where transgender student-athletes can participate without discrimination.
In addition to Senate Bills 1311 and 1646, which target trans youth and have hearings in the Senate States Affairs Committee this week, Texas lawmakers have filed six additional bills that target transgender students participating in sports, including SB 29, SB 373, and HB 1458. (Watch for James Russell’s round-up of anti-LGBTQ bills making their way through the Texas legislative process in the Friday, April 16, issue of Dallas Voice.) Wesley Story, communications manager at Progress Texas, warned this