The Alaska education board is holding a special meeting on Thursday where the board will likely be taking action on the policy change that would limit the participation of transgender girls in girls sports.
urging the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development to ban transgender girls from participating in girls sports. Shortly after, the Alaska education department developed a proposed regulation that has received heat from critics and praise from advocates ever since.
“We’re recommending that if we have to meet this requirement, we would change to where we have a division now, as required, that would only be available to biological females,” ASAA Executive Director Robert Strickland said. Strickland pointed to the results of the NCAA women’s swimming championships that triggered DEED’s proposed changes, where a transgender woman dominated the sport and showed many of the unfair possibilities spanning from allowing transgender females to compete with biological females.
Some in opposition to the changes emphasized the changes would violate the state constitution’s privacy clause and therefore be challenged legally, if passed.
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