RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- There is mixed reaction after the Virginia State Board of Health voted in favor of writing a new state regulation that is meant to ban transgender women from playing on women’s sports teams.

The vote came after three college swimmers, including Roanoke College swimmer Carter Satterfield, asked the board to write a new rule that would also ban transgender women from any spaces where women might undress.

“Men and women, biologically, are different,” Satterfield told 8News.

“At the core of this petition is a desire to label a specific group of Virginians as harmful based solely on their identity,” said Narissa Rahaman, Executive Director of Equality Virginia, an LGBTQ rights advocacy group.

Satterfield said when she was a sophomore on the Roanoke College swim team,

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