After securing a supermajority in both chambers of the North Carolina legislature, Republican lawmakers wasted no time in introducing legislation regarding transgender student-athletes.
State Republicans introduced a number of bills on April 5. The most noteworthy pertain to contentious issues in the national spotlight: the rights of high school transgender student-athletes to play on the sports team of the gender with which they identify, and the rights of transgender youth to receive the healthcare for the gender they choose.
