Washington State Superintendent or Public Instruction Chris Reykdal spoke to defend transgender athletes In Girls Sports in an address on Thursday, claiming that it was “inaccurate” to say that there are only two sexes.
“It is simply inaccurate to say, organic, that there are only guys and there are only girls,” said Reykdal. “There is a continuum. There is a science. There are children who are that Born Intersekse. There are children whose hormones and whose chromosomes are not consistent with their gender at birth.
“That is not a debate that we will have today. I only want to remind you of our obligations for civil rights. Our state laws make it clear that children can identify and participate on the basis of the gender in which they identify. We go to that law to to enforce. “
Reykdal served three periods as a democratic member of the Washington House of Representatives from the 22nd district.
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While he criticizes the recent executive command of President Donald Trump that forbids schools to allow transatations to compete in girls’ sports, Reykdal called a statistics of how many transgender athletes there are in his state.
“Of the nearly a quarter of a million children who participate in interscholastic athletics and activities in the state of Washington, about five to 10 young people have identified themselves as transmen participating,” said Reykdal. “If we cannot meet the needs of five or 10 people – whether there is privacy access and a privacy option for all students, that is what our laws and rules say – if we cannot do that, who are we?”
Reykdal insisted that Trump did not have the authority as a president to issue a ban on trans -athletes in girls’ sports, but admitted that the American congress does. The protection of women and girls in the Sports Act is a bill in the congress that would fulfill similar requirements as the order of Trump and has already died in the House of Representatives. It is not yet voted in the Senate.
“Until the congress changes the law whether our state legislator changes the law, we will follow the current law and the current civil right framework of this state, and that is what it tells us to do,” said Reykdal.
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The high school athletes of Washington are allowed to compete on the basis of their gender identity instead of their biological sex. Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) policy states that each athlete will participate in programs “consistent with their gender identity or the most consistently printed sex”, and there are no medical or legal requirements.
Accounts that would prohibit transgender girls to participate in girls and women’s sports were introduced but not accepted.
However, the issue became so important for residents that the WIAA announced a proposal in December to create a separate open division for transgender athletes to compete.
“To maintain honest and fair competition, participation in girls’ sports and girls from sport is limited to students who were assigned female at birth. The purpose of this policy is to provide clarity with regard to the participation of trans and gender -diverse student -Thteten.
That proposal came weeks after the Central Valley School Board, which supervises schools in Spokane Valley and Liberty Lake, WashingtonVoted to send a message to the WIAA about the issue after the debate during a school board meeting.
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The resolution, “supportive equality and safety in female sport”, claims that the entire board consists of female members who have participated in athletics or daughters who participated in athletics.
One of the women, a non-intended current cross-country ski runner, shared her experience during that hearing.
“When I walked Cross-Country for Greenacres Middle School, a boy who was biologically masculine but identified as a female participated in the girls’ team,” she said. “Although I respect everyone’s right to participate in sports, the situation made me question the honesty of competing (with) someone who had the physical benefit in connection with male biology.”
In May a transatlete participated in a girls’ championship for girls and won.
The athlete won the 400-meter Harmterace in the girls’ division with a time of 55.59 seconds. The second place runner finished 58.83 seconds. In the final, the Transatleet won with a time of 55.75 seconds, a full second for second place, which ended with 56.75.
This week, a civil rights complaint was submitted With the US Department of Education’s Office or Civil Rights on behalf of a teenage girl in the state of Washington who was reportedly punished for refusing a basketball match against a transatlet.
The complaint claimed that the Tumwater School District In Washington Investments the 15-year-old Frances Staudt for the “mistreatment” of the opponent and violating the policy of the district against bullying and intimidation.
According to the document, Staudt asked the director and athletic director of the school prior to a game whether a player was a biological man. The managers would then reportedly confirmed that they had been informed that the player was transgender, but denied her supplications to have the player removed. Staudt removed himself from the game.
The Ministry of Education of President Trump has already started title IX investigations for the athletic conferences of the State High School in California, Minnesota and Maine for their refusal to meet its executive order.
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