内容摘要：to feed and shelter beneficial wildlife like pollinators.

to feed and shelter beneficial wildlife like pollinators.

in last year’s election, dividing Democrats on how to respond.The bill applies to participation in girls’ and women’s sports that are sponsored by public schools, public universities and publicly chartered community colleges.

It also prohibits any sort of government agency or athletic association from investigating or punishing a school or higher education institution for maintaining separate sports teams for girls or women.For well over an hour, Republicans and Democrats debated the bill, at times hotly. The sponsor, Sen. Judy Ward, a Republican from Blair County, said the bill would “ensure all young women have a fair chance to compete in the sports they love.”Ward said that since 2020 in Pennsylvania, 37 female athletes have lost first place and another 13 lost second or third place, although she didn’t say from where she drew the statistics. Pennsylvania’s governing body for high school sports, the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, said it was aware of just one transgender student currently participating in sports.

Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa, a Democrat from Allegheny County, called the bill discriminatory against transgender people, as well as “unnecessary, unwarranted and unconstitutional in my mind.”Democrats warned that the bill will go nowhere in the House, and a spokesperson for House Democratic leaders accused Senate Republicans of being “more focused on divisive political theater and bullying kids for political points.”

‘s office declined to comment Tuesday about the bill, although the Democrat has in the past expressed opposition to such bans, calling 2022’s bill “nothing more than cruel, designed to discriminate against transgender youth who just want to play sports like their peers.”

Trump, as president,in grades 5 to 12 from teams that align with their gender identity, as well as President Donald Trump’s Feb. 5 executive order,

that they can play sports during the ongoing lawsuit that seeks to overturn the law.NEW YORK (AP) — The moon will appear to

this weekend during a partial solar eclipse in the Northern Hemisphere — but make sure to protect your eyes.The eclipse will be visible Saturday across Europe, western Africa, eastern North America and northern Asia. The sun will shrink the most for the northeastern United States, Greenland and eastern Canada.