The state legislature will soon consider a bill that prohibits transgender athletes who were assigned as a male at birth to play on women’s sports teams. Franklinton Senator Beth Mizell says female sports are a women’s rights issue and should be for biological women only.
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Louisiana Trans Advocates President Dylan Waguespack says women’s equality organizations have signed an open letter denouncing the legislation.

Governor John Bel Edwards says he’s supporting a series of bills by Alexandria Senator Jay Leneau that would prohibit insurance companies from determining rates based on factors like credit score, gender, marital status and whether you served overseas….
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Republicans say tort reform is needed to lower auto insurance rates.

Today is Super Tuesday, but Louisiana’s Presidential Primary is not until April 4th. Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin says early voting will begin March 21st and run through March 28th…
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Ardoin says to vote in the Democratic or Republican Presidential Primary you must be registered with one of the parties. The deadline to register online is March 14th and in person at your local registrar of voters’ office by tomorrow.

53-year-old Phillip DeWoody is expected to be charged in murder for the death of Joyce Thomas of Ville Platte. The 72-year-old’s body was found Monday along Interstate-49. State Trooper Thomas Gossen says a surveillance photo from her apartment complex shows that Dewoody was the last person with her…
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Dewoody is also facing a second-degree kidnapping charge from a separate case and the Department of Corrections records show he was paroled in June.