For the fourth consecutive legislative session of 2021, social and religious conservatives are pressing to ban transgender Texans from competing in public school sports based on their gender identity. Their persistent efforts have been vigorously opposed as cruel and unnecessary by LGBTQ advocates, progressive groups and influential state companies — a coalition that has managed thus far to fend off the sports bills and other measures directed at transgender Texans at the Legislature. The opposing sides squared off once again Wednesday at the Capitol, where a House committee took public testimony on House Bill 25 — which, like a similar measure already passed by the Texas Senate, would require public school athletes to compete in sports under the "biological sex" as listed on their original birth certificate.

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