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Senate Democrats sank for now a bill Monday barring male-born athletes from competing in female scholastic sports, defying a rising tide of public opposition to transgender players competing based on gender identity instead of biological sex.

Senate Republicans were unable to muster the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture on Senate Bill 9, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act sponsored by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, Alabama Republican. The final party-line vote was 51-45.

The bill would have banned federal funding to scholastic institutions that allow those whose “sex is male” to participate in programs or activities designated for girls and women, with “sex” being based “solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”

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