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Correction, April 23, 2022, eleven:25 AM: In a previous version of this article, we stated that Gearbox Amusement may leave Texas depending on the passage of the Off-white Sports for Women and Girls Act. This was wrong. Gearbox Amusement is not because leaving Texas and instead stated the visitor would consider expanding outside of the state. We have corrected the article, and we regret the error.

Original article: A law that would force transgender public schoolhouse students to participate in sports with members of the sex on their birth certificate has been met with fierce opposition from members of the games industry.

The law, titled the Fair Sports for Women and Girls Act, or Texas Senate Bill 29, passed in the land's senate last week. In response, over xl companies, including Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Gearbox Entertainment, published an open up letter of the alphabet voicing their concerns over the law.

"We are concerned to see a resurgence of efforts to exclude transgender youth from full participation in their communities, to criminalize or ban best-practice medical care that is proven to save lives, or to exclude LGBTQ people in a diverseness of other settings, including accessing healthcare, filling a prescription, or seeking legal representation," reads the letter.

Notwithstanding, Gearbox Amusement isn't stopping with words and may take activeness if the neb is signed into constabulary. PC Gamer has reported that David Najjab, the manager of institutional partnerships at Gearbox, warned that the company would consider looking for business organization opportunities outside of the lone-star state.

"Our game company is in competitions worldwide. We consign more than than — nosotros sell more to Asia than we do in the United States," Najjab said. "We bring a lot of coin into this state, we're headquartered hither. Don't bulldoze u.s. to where we have to start expanding outside of Texas and exterior the country."