The bill is expected to clear the senate as early as next week, after members of the house voted for it following a verbal altercation between a Democrat representative and the Republican house speaker.
The vote sparked backlash from LGBTQ+ advocates, who noted that the bill's advancement comes just weeks after Nex Benedict, a non-binary teenager in Oklahoma, died following a fight at the public high school they attended.
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