JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi’s Republican-led Legislature will not hold a final vote on two bills seeking to limit legal recognition. transgender people.
The bills died quietly when House and Senate leaders failed to agree on compromise versions before a deadline Monday night. Lawmakers were working on a number of other complex issues at the time.
A bill would be limited transgender people using the bathroom and locker rooms in public buildings, including university dormitories. Another would determine that there is gender determined at birthand “there are only two sexes, and each individual is either male or female.”
The House and Senate had previously passed different versions of both bills. The Republican-controlled chambers must agree on a single version of each bill to go to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves.
In 2021, Reeves signed it into law ban on transgender athletes from competing on girls’ or women’s sports teams. Last year, he signed a bill into law ban sex-affirming hormones or surgery For anyone under 18 years of age.
Mississippi was among the offers several bills It is under consideration in US state legislatures as Republicans seek to limit transgender people’s access to gender-affirming care, bathrooms and sports, among other things.
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