After securing a supermajority in both chambers of the North Carolina legislature, Republican lawmakers wasted no time in introducing legislation regarding transgender student-athletes.
State Republicans introduced a number of bills on April 5. The most noteworthy pertain to contentious issues in the national spotlight: the rights of high school transgender student-athletes to play on the sports team of the gender with which they identify, and the rights of transgender youth to receive the healthcare for the gender they choose.
And State Rep. Tricia Cotham announced that she would be switching party affiliations from Democrat to Republican, giving her new party the supermajority in both state legislative chambers….