Signed by Governor Greg Abbott

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits transgender girls from playing girls sports, but allows transgender boys to play boys sports if there is no girls option for that particular sport.

Highlights:

• Establishes the term "biological sex" to mean the physical condition of being male or female as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profile of the individual at birth (Sec 3). 

• Prohibits an interscholastic athletic team sponsored or authorized by a school district or open-enrollment charter school to allow a student to compete in an interscholastic athletic competition sponsored or authorized by the district or school that is designated for the opposite biological sex of the student as correctly stated on (Sec 3): 

• The student's official birth certificate; or

• If the student's official birth certificate is unobtainable, another government record.

• Establishes a statement of a student's biological sex on the student's official birth certificate is considered to have correctly stated the student's biological sex only if the statement was (Sec. Sec 3):

• Entered at or near the time of the student's birth; or

• Modified to correct any type of scrivener or clerical error in the student's biological sex.

• Authorizes an interscholastic athletic team to allow a female student to compete in an interscholastic athletic competition that is designated for male students if a corresponding interscholastic athletic competition designated for female students is not offered or available (Sec. 3).

• Authorizes the University Interscholastic League to adopt the above rules, provided that the rules must be approved by the commissioner. The rules must ensure compliance with state and federal law regarding the confidentiality of student medical information (Sec. 3).

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