A state athletic association looked at the student's records going back to kindergarten—and her parents were not informed.
she’d always been a female,” David Spatafore told state legislators on an education committee. He withheld the girl’s name, sport, grade and school division,. While at the very least, this governing body isn’t interested in publicly humiliating this child, it doesn’t negate the fact that public officials are in the business of interrogating a student’s gender presentation and athletic ability—especially without informing the child’s parents.
This is not the first time the association has investigated a child’s gender to confirm they’re competing on the “right” sports team. Spatafore told the legislature that his office has received numerous complaints about potential trans kid athletes. Among the most common is that a “female athlete doesn’t look feminine enough.”All complaints were taken “seriously,” he said. “We followed up on all of those complaints with the school and the school system.
For this case, parents were not informed of the targeted search of their student’s records because the schools answered the necessary questions, he said. “We didn’t get to the parents or the student simply because if all of the questions about eligibility were answered by the school or the feeder system schools, there was no reason to make it a personal situation with a family or that athlete,” Spatafore told the legislature.
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