first to pass a law preventing transgender women from participating in women's sports, only for a federal judge to suspend the ban in August.
While the law is not being forced as the case remains pending, that hasn't stopped other states to put forward similar bills.On Thursday, Tennessee joined Idaho in banning trans women from competing on teams according to their gender identity only two months after President Joe Biden signed an executive order on his first day of office banning discrimination based on gender identity in school sports and elsewhere.From July 1, the Mississippi Fairness Act will require athletes at public schools and universities to compete according to their sex assigned at birth, as opposed to the one they identify.