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TALLAHASSEE, Florida, April 30, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The Florida legislature passed a bill prohibiting gender-confused males from playing on women’s sports teams in an unexpected vote on Wednesday.
The Fairness in Women’s Sports Act had been proclaimed dead by opponents last week after being shelved by Senate Republicans with just days left in the legislative session, which ended today.
House lawmakers had approved a similar act by a 37-vote margin earlier this month, though Republican Sen. Kelli Stargel, lead sponsor of the Senate version, postponed a hearing for the bill in the upper chamber. Sen. Stargel, who originally sought to allow some “transitioning” males to compete on women’s teams, claimed that the bill was dropped due to other priorities. The last scheduled meeting of the committee tasked to hear the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act was Tuesday.
Senate leaders nevertheless revived the measure by adding it as an amendment to another bill about charter schools that passed both chambers on Wednesday night.
The charter school bill, SB 1028, mandates that sports teams sponsored by public schools and colleges be based on biological sex. “Athletic teams or sports
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