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Louisiana House fails to reverse transgender sports ban veto

by Melinda Deslatte
| July 21, 2021 1:30 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana House lawmakers Wednesday failed to overturn Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto of legislation banning transgender athletes from school sports teams, a significant blow to Republican-led efforts to enact the new law in an historic veto session that has seen no bill rejections overridden so far.

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