Alaska’s high school sports association is set to consider an amendment to its bylaws that would limit transgender girls’ participation in girls’ school sports teams.
transgender athletes to participate in intramural sports “in a manner consistent with their gender identity consistently expressed at school.”The proposed amendment to the association’s bylaws was sent to school administrators in mid-March. Strickland said he has received a handful of public comments since then, which he said have fallen roughly into three equal camps: Those that approved of the new policy, those that don’t, and those that opposed the process used to bring the proposal forward.
Strickland said he discussed the idea of banning transgender athletes from competing against cisgender girls in February with officials from Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration. He said it would be possible to create a division just for cisgender girls, and a coed division for everyone else. Girls already regularly play alongside boys in Alaska on some football and hockey teams, when equivalent teams for girls don’t exist, he said.
Anchorage Democrat Sen. Löki Tobin, co-chair of the Senate Education Committee, is opposed to the association’s proposal and said that it was “troubling” that the state would supersede local control of how school districts organize sports. Calling the policy “appalling,” Tobin said it would violate ASAA’s “own organizational values of integrity and inclusivity.”
Lacey Sanders, deputy commissioner of the Alaska education department, said by email that the department is working with the Alaska Department of Law to understand the impact of the proposed federal policy, which has not yet been adopted.
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