Washington school districts have put the matter into their own hands after the Blue state refused to comply with President Donald Trump's recent “No Men in Women's Sports” executive order.
The Tumwater School District board voted Thursday to ban Trans Girls from playing women's sports teams. The resolution was voted 3-1.
Board member Jill Adams abstained, but he worked on Trump's executive order banning transgender women from participating in girls and women's sports.
“Many of us may oppose executive orders, but we are us because school board members get caught between rocks and difficult places,” Adams said. “I support different perspectives and different ways of life, but that's difficult. It's not rock, it's caught between rock and hard surfaces.”
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After the resolution was passed, devastating protesters erupted at the district office, resulting in the rest of the meeting being cancelled; King 5 News.
Washington is one of many Democratic-run states that allowed trans athletes to play after the Trans athletes' executive order, and has spurred nationwide backlash after a widely publicized incident involving trans athletes.
Civil Rights A complaint has been filed On behalf of a Washington state teenage girl, along with the U.S. Department of Education's Civil Rights Office, she was allegedly punished for refusing to play a basketball game with a trans athlete.
The complaint alleged the Tanwater School District. In Washington Currently, on February 7th, he violated the district's policies against bullying and harassment, causing him to “misidentify” 15-year-old Francis Stoud by his opponents and violate district policies.
According to the documents, prior to the game, Staudt asked the school's principal and athletic director if the player was a biological male. The administrator has since said they confirmed that the player was notified that he was transgender, but pleaded to remove the player.
Staudt removed himself from the game. The document then said that TSD employees confronted Staudt's younger brother to video the game and told him, “You better think carefully about what you're doing right now.”
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Staudt has appeared in the YouTube series.”[un]It is divided into Brandi Creuset“To discuss this week’s situation with my mother, they each repeated many of the same claims contained in the complaint.
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“I was threatened to me. I was saying I'd go to hell. I said, 'After this I'm lucky to have a future,'” and said, 'I know that everyone reporting your account is happy to see your downfall.
A few days later, a trans athlete was involved in the incident identified as Andy Luke. In the same show With the athlete's father.
If Staudt's concerns were known, Lukes would have sat there.
“I had never had any problems up until this game. My goal was never to make anyone uncomfortable. I didn't even realize that Francis was having problems until I screamed at the game,” Lukes said. “If she had been having a conversation with me before the game, I would have sat there. The last thing I want to do is make anyone uncomfortable.”
High school athletes in Washington are currently allowed to compete based on gender identity rather than biological sex. WIAA's policy states that each athlete will participate in a program that “matches gender identity or the most consistently expressed gender” with no medical or even legal requirements. A bill has been introduced that prohibits transgender girls from participating in sports for girls and women, but has not passed.
Washington State's public leadership superintendent Chris Lakedal spoke in defense. Transgender athlete In a speech last week, she argued that saying that women's sports only had two genders was “inaccurate.”
“Biologically, it's very inaccurate to say that there are only boys and girls,” Lakedal said. “There is a continuum, there is science in this. Born in Intersex. Some children have no matching hormones and chromosomes with their sex at birth.
“Our state laws make it clear that children can identify and participate based on the gender they identify. We support that law.”
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Lakedal allegedly said Trump has no presidential authority to ban trans-athletes in women's sports, but he has admitted to the actions of the US Congress. Protection of women and girls in the sports law is a legislation in Congress that implements similar requirements to Trump's orders, and has already been passed in the House. It has not yet voted in the Senate.
“Until Congress changes the law or our state legislature changes the law, we will be following the current laws of this state and the current civil rights framework.
However, the issue was so concerned with residents that in December the WIAA announced a proposal to create another open division for trans athletes to compete.
The proposal came weeks after the Central Valley Board of Education, which oversees the Spokane Valley schools. Lake Liberty, Washingtonafter many discussions at the school board meeting, he voted to send a message to the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) on the issue.
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