The law, House Bill 25, which says K-12 students have to play with their assigned sex at birth, goes into effect in January.
Proponents say such legislation shields biological women against unfair advantages. The bill has further faced its fair share of backlash. A White House spokesperson called it "hateful."
Republican state Rep. Valoree Swanson, who authored "House Bill 25", announced she was "overjoyed" the GOP governor signed the bill into law. "It's so very, very important that we protect everything that women have gained in the last 50 years," Swanson stated.
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According to the Texas Tribune, the new law is even more aggressive than standing rules for Texas universities, where a student's gender is based on the birth certificate. Yet, they permit the certificate to be changed to reflect one's gender identity.
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Texas is the 10th state to establish a law banning transgender youth from playing sports with their new gender. Legal challenges have been filed in Florida and West Virginia.
Of course, advocates for transgender Texans have claimed the argument is not only detrimental to transgender youth, but also cisgender girls and women who may not adhere strictly to societal standards.
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Rebekah Bryant, whose 8-year-old daughter Sunny is transgender, testified against HB 25 last week. She felt "defeated" when the bill initially passed in the House.
"I'm feeling very defeated and very deflated right now, and I was sad to tell Sunny because we've always filtered her from the badness of all this as much as possible," Bryant said.
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Ricardo Martinez, CEO of Equality Texas, further opposed the bill and announced that the organization’s most immediate focus is providing healing to transgender children and advocates who have returned session after session to speak out against anti-transgender legislation.
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"This hateful bill in Texas is just the latest example of Republican state lawmakers using legislation to target transgender kids, whom the president believes are some of the bravest Americans, in order to score political points," White House spokesman Ike Hajinazarian told the Dallas Morning News. "These anti-transgender bills are nothing more than bullying disguised as legislation and undermine our nation's core values."
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Amit Paley, the CEO of the Trevor Project, suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization, was concerned about the effect the new law will have on the mental health of transgender students.
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"Transgender and nonbinary youth are already at higher risk for poor mental health and suicide because of bullying, discrimination, and rejection. This misguided legislation will only make matters worse," Paley announced, according to the Advocate.
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