transgender student athlete

It's a tweaked version of a ban that failed to pass in the last General Assembly.

The Ohio Senate added several lengthy amendments to a bill which it then passed late Wednesday night.

The Ohio bill still bans transgender athletes from participating in girls' sports and now says a student athlete would need to provide a birth certificate if their sex is disputed.

Senate President Matt Huffman (R-Lima) calls the House bill language that requires internal and external exams “unnecessary” and plans for that measure to be omitted in the Senate version.

Language in bill would require exam of student athletes’ “internal and external reproductive anatomy” if their sex is questioned.

Bill sponsors say it is needed to protect the integrity of womens' athletics

A second showdown over the issue in a year took place at the Statehouse at the end of a marathon session, with Republicans attaching this provision to a popular bill on teacher mentorship.

The bill that would ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports at the high school and college level, which is widely opposed by…