The bill passed the House in March, but it does not have a clear path forward in the Senate.
Diamond Campbell, a powerlifter at Bruce High School in Mississippi, was almost disqualified from the state championship April 1.
But it wasn’t because of her form. It was because of her hair.
“I remember looking back, and on the board, it’ll be green or red. If it’s green, you know, you got it. You can go on and do the next weight,” Campbell, 16, said in a recent interview, recalling the moment she stepped off the platform after completing her first lift. “So I looked at the board, and it was red. I was confused.”
A judge informed one of her coaches that Campbell would need to remove the beads securing the ends of her braids in order to stay in the competition.
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