Republicans are petitioning to force the House to vote on a federal anti-transgender bill

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Republicans are trying to force House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to bring an anti-transgender bill up for a vote.

While the last-ditch effort to get a vote on the bill before the midterm elections will likely fail, it shows the commitment of the GOP to attacking transgender equality and what their agenda may be should they take the House of Representatives in the midterm elections.

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Last year Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) introduced H.R. 426, which would require state and local athletics organizations to limit participation in girls’ and women’s sports to girls and women as defined “solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”

The bill hasn’t come up for a vote in the Democratic House, but Republicans are signaling to their voters that this is a key issue for the party by pushing a discharge petition to bring the bill to the floor despite opposition from Speaker Pelosi.

Currently, the petition has…

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