California's Travel Ban Could Impact College Athletics

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These days, it seems as if everything, from your morning cup of coffee to the sports you watch on television, is becoming politicized. College athletics is not immune to the trend.

A California law passed in January will prohibit state-funded travel to states that the law deemed discriminatory against gay and transgender people. That means that state-funded athletics programs, including the UC and CSU university systems, could be prohibited from traveling to the states of Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, South Dakota — and perhaps most notably, Texas. Many of those states have adopted so-called “bathroom bills” that restrict access to restroom facilities for transgender people. North Carolina made many headlines last year, after both the NCAA and the NBA removed their events from the state in response to that sort of legislation.

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