The Arizona House of Representatives passed a ban on students who are transgender girls from participating in girls sports at schools across the state Tuesday.

H/T: TheHill

After almost six hours of debate, 31 Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives voted Tuesday night to pass H.B. 2706, which will now move on to the Senate.

“We are talking today about a real and growing threat to girl’s and women’s sports,” the bill’s sponsor, Phoenix Republican Rep. Nancy Barto, told the House floor. “This is a bill to save women’s sports because, frankly, it won’t be saved if we don’t clarify the law and put men in men’s lanes and… put women in women’s lanes, because biological boys are outperforming them in every category, even if they are mediocre athletes.”

State lawmakers in Tennessee and Washington have also pushed to keep school sports separated by biological sex by introducing bills that would require schools to identify students by their original birth certificates.

Arizona House of Representatives Passes Bill Banning Trans Athletes From Youth Sports https://t.co/51P8EGA5Jb via @BigLeaguePol — Big League America (@bigleaguemerica) March 4, 2020

GOP-controlled Arizona House passes bill banning trans-males from competing in women's sports https://t.co/ik9dEh0lfo via @BIZPACReview — Jerry Herrera (@jhv7) March 4, 2020

Read the full text of House Bill 2706 below.