The House approves a bill forcing school board races to become partisan. A ban on governments supporting obscene performances advances to the Senate. And a transgender collegiate sports ban goes to the governor.

Despite concerns about protections from intrusive exams and "bad faith" grievances, the measure was passed by the Senate with bipartisan support.

A Senate committee passed a measure to ban transgender women from competing in collegiate athletics. Democrats proposed several amendments to pull back or clarify the measure — all failed along party lines.

Indiana House lawmakers passed a measure to ban transgender women from competing in collegiate sports Tuesday. The bill seeks to codify a recent executive order from President Donald Trump.

House Bill 1041 bans Indiana public and private higher education institutions from allowing transgender women to compete in sports.

An advocacy group of LGBTQ+ athletes and allies gathered outside the NCAA's Inclusion Forum for a "Day of Play" to rally support for transgender athletes.

The open letter said failure to protect transgender athletes goes against the very principles of the NCAAs Constitution. It was signed by more than 400 current and former NCAA, professional, Olympic and Paralympic athletes.

Indiana's ban on transgender girls from girls school sports can now take effect after a lawsuit against it was dismissed. The 10-year-old girl represented in the case by the ACLU of Indiana moved to a charter school.

A lawsuit challenging an Indiana law that prohibits transgender students from competing in girls school sports was dropped Wednesday just weeks before it was to be heard by a federal appeals court.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita filed an appeal in federal court this week to reverse a preliminary injunction that allowed an Indianapolis 10-year-old transgender girl play softball on her school team.