The Alaska Senate is considering a bill that would limit the participation of transgender kids in school sports.
competitors who are cisgender, meaning their gender identity matches the one they were assigned at birth.
Hart spoke in favor of the bill during a hearing on Thursday, saying that competing against transgender athletes “is unfair and is not right.” “The fact that an occasional trans person succeeds in sports is not a reason to exclude all trans athletes from sports, particularly trans youth who by the fact of that exclusion suffer immense harm,” Garvey said, adding that the bill could jeopardize their mental and physical health.
“There was a very small number of coaches that didn’t like the policy even though their school districts did, but it was very limited,” Strickland said. “We didn’t have any schools or districts protesting.”, school sports teams would be required to be designated as for males, for females, or coeducational. Participation in female sports team would be based on “the participant’s biological sex.” A definition for biological sex is not provided in the bill.
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