Despite impassioned pleas from LGBT advocates, a Florida House panel approved a controversial proposal that would ban transgender girls and women from competing in women’s high-school and college sports.

The move by the House Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee put Florida among the ranks of at least two dozen other Republican-dominated state legislatures that have considered or approved measures requiring student athletes to compete according to their sex assigned at birth.

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