
© AP Photo/Matt York, FileThe Arizona House of Representatives gather during a legislative session Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at the Capitol in Phoenix. Arizona Legislature voted to ban gender-reassignment surgery for minors and sends bill to Republican Gov. Doug Ducey on Thursday, March 24, 2022
Arizona passed bills Thursday banning transgender athletes from competing in women's sports and minors from undergoing gender transition surgery, adding another member to the
growing coalition of Republican states that have passed such measures.
It is uncertain whether Governor Doug Ducey will sign the bills. While he is a Republican, that doesn't necessarily mean he will rubber stamp the bills, given that the Republican governors of
Utah and Indiana recently vetoed their versions of the sports legislation.
Prohibiting transgender athletes from female sports has become a major Republican platform
issue. Multiple red states have passed bills restricting K-12 and collegiate athletics to biological sex. Idaho was the first do so in 2020, but its law is currently entrenched in litigation, as is West Virginia's.
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