State of play: A total of 27 states have blocked transgender women and girls from participating in girls’ sports.

• The Trump administration and conservative groups have pushed schools to roll back protections for transgender youth, casting restrictive executive orders as the law of the land and threatening to withhold federal funding from states that do not comply.
• “This administration has sort of a loose relationship with the law,” Fatima Goss Graves, the CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, tells Axios.