More than 400 civil rights organizations are urging congressional lawmakers to vote against legislation that would bar transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, along with 405 other civil rights organizations supporting LGBTQ issues, sent a letter Monday to lawmakers asking them to reject the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. The Leadership Conference in a news release called the legislation “the latest in a spate of harmful bills at the national and local levels that are an attack on transgender, nonbinary, and intersex students.”

The House last year passed the bill, sponsored by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., by a 219-203 vote, with no Democrat support, but it languished in the Democrat-controlled Senate. House Republicans proposed Steube’s bill as part of the rules package for the 119th Congress. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., has sponsored a similar bill in the Senate.

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