The board is set to vote on the bylaws at the meeting scheduled two weeks from now.
If passed, it would ban transgender girls from girls sports teams and could affect all high school athletes in Alaska.a recent resolution by the State Board of Education
ASAA’s proposed amendment would meet that request. The current proposal would change the structure of how girls and boys teams compete, according to ASAA Executive Director Billy Strickland. “I’d rather deal with something before it became an issue as opposed to later, because at that point, you don’t get the opportunity back for the student that maybe was negatively impacted,” Strickland said.
Haley Amorelli, a queer student that went through the Alaska school system says she worries about the long term impacts to these individuals.
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