Arizona Gov. Ducey signs legislation barring transgender females from playing girls sports

Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law Wednesday a pair of bills, one that prevents transgender girls from participating in female school sports and another that prohibits gender reassignment surgery for minors in the state.

SB 1138 states that a "physician or other health care professional may not provide gender transition procedures to any individual under eighteen years of age." SB 1165 prevents transgender girls from playing on girls teams. And it requires "each interscholastic or intramural athletic team or sport that is sponsored by a public school or a private school whose students compete against a public school" to designate a gendered name to the team based on the biological sex of the participants. For example, "boys," "girls," "male," "female" or "coed" are among the accepted designations the teams can give themselves.