More than 7 in 10 parents of California public school students — and 65% of adults overall — oppose transgender athletes playing in girls’ or women’s sports, saying they should be required to compete on teams that match their biological sex, according to a new bipartisan Public Policy Institute of California survey.

The survey also found that 49% of Democrats and 71% of independents said that trans athletes should not be able to compete as the gender they identify with.

The survey comes weeks after the state legislature’s Democrat supermajority voted to block a bill that would have required the California Interscholastic Federation, the governing body for high school sports, to adopt rules banning students who were born male from participating on a sports team for girls.

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