AUSTIN, Texas – Texas lawmakers want to give the state’s governing body for school sports the authority to disqualify students if doctor-approved steroid use gives them an advantage.

The Texas Senate approved Senate Bill 2095 on Tuesday to give the University Interscholastic League the authority to decide whether a ban on steroid use applies to specific students in different circumstances, such as transgender students receiving doctor prescribed hormone therapy, the Texas Tribune reports.

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Currently, students receiving hormone therapy are allowed to participate simply by providing documentation from their doctor, but SB 2095 would allow the UIL to disqualify students if the situation affects safety or provides an unfair advantage.

“This is for fairness and safety of the students,” said Bob Hall, the bill’s sponsor. “Steroids can create a situation where it would be unsafe and unfair for students to compete.”

The legislation comes after 17-year-old transgender wrestler Mack Beggs of Trinity High School took went undefeated to take home a girls championship. Texas wrestling rules required Beggs, a female transitioning to become a male, to wrestle other girls, the Dallas Morning News reports.

Sen. Sylvia Garcia, a Houston Democrat, pressed Hall on the intent of his legislation, alleging it’s specifically targeted at transgender students like Beggs.

“Isn’t the real intent of your bill to ban students from competing who are taking steroids for gender dysphoria?” Garcia questioned.

“Absolutely not,” Hall said. “It is not in response to that.”

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Garcia apparently wouldn’t take “no” for an answer, and continued to press her colleague about the bill.

“Senator, you asked me that question and I gave you an answer,” Hall snapped, according to the Dallas Morning News. “Are you impugning my integrity?”

“I’m just suggesting to you that it’s hard for me to reconcile your responses,” Garcia said.

Other Democrats, however, sided with Hall, including four Democratic senators who supported the measure in a 24-7 preliminary vote in the Senate Tuesday.

“We know the intention of your bill. I agree with you,” Jose Menendez, a Democrat from San Antonio, told Hall at the hearing. “We should be doing everything we can to keep young people who may just be wanting that little edge from using steroids.”

Regardless, Garcia attempted and failed to attach an amendment to the bill that would have forced UIL to adopt the same “trans-inclusive” policies for students as the NCAA.

“This bill would permit the UIL from banning athletes like Mack because of the argument that their health-based treatment would create an unfair advantage and therefore discriminate against trans athletes considering most trans athletes don’t have immediate access to have their birth certificates changes appropriately,” Garcia said.

SB 2095 is expected to receive another vote from the full Senate as early as Wednesday before it moves on to the state House for consideration.