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Mississippi close to putting limits on transgender athletes

by Emily Wagster Pettus
| March 3, 2021 2:30 PM

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi House voted Wednesday to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls' or women's sports teams in the state's schools and universities. The bill heads to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves in the next several days, and he is expected to sign it into law.

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