The discriminatory effort by Indiana legislators to ban transgender girls from K-12 school sports attempts to create a “solution” to a “problem” that doesn’t exist, while needlessly demonizing and harming vulnerable kids.

The arguments that proponents of HB 1041 are pushing rest on false assumptions about biology, athleticism, and gender. Believing and perpetuating myths and misconceptions about trans students is harmful. Let’s debunk them.

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