Transgender athletes in Louisiana could be banned from women's sports under this bill

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Transgender athletes would be barred from participating in girls' or women's sports at public schools under a proposal filed last week by a group of GOP state lawmakers, adding Louisiana to a growing list of legislatures considering restrictions on transgender rights.

The law as proposed mirrors dozens of other laws introduced across the country in recent months and would require that athletics teams for women at public institutions be composed of only cisgendered, "biological females" — or those women whose internal psychological gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.

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The bill will be considered during the legislative session beginning April 12 along with another proposal that requires transgender minors first receive written consent from both parental guardians before receiving gender-confirming health care like puberty blockers or hormone therapy.

A third bill would ban such treatments for minors outright, and tack penalties of up to two years imprisonment or $10,000 in fines for health care providers that go against the law.

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