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Mississippi gov signs bill limiting transgender athletes

by Emily Wagster Pettus
| March 12, 2021 12:03 AM

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill Thursday to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls or women’s sports teams.

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