Lawmakers in North Dakota, US, have proposed a bill which would prevent high school and college athletes from participating in sports under any sex other than the one on their birth certificate, thus prohibiting trans students from competing in the category which aligns with their gender identity.
House Bill 1298 would prevent publicly-funded institutions, such as educational facilities, from allowing any “individual who was assigned the opposite sex at birth to participate on an athletic team…[which is designed] exclusively for females or exclusively for males.” Lawmaker Ben Koppelman is the main sponsor of the billAccording to Inforum, the bill’s lead sponsor, state representative Ben Koppelman, insisted the regulations have “nothing to.