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Governor: Transgender athletes will 'destroy women's sports'

by Kimberlee Kruesi & Jonathan Mattise
| February 12, 2021 12:03 AM

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday that transgender girls should be banned from playing on middle and high school sports teams or they will “destroy women's sports.”

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