WA training leading: It’s ‘misguided’ to mention there there are two genders

Washington condition Superintendent of Family Instruction Chris Reykdal spoke in protection of transgender athletes in women sports activities in an cope with Thursday, claiming it was once “inaccurate” to mention there are most effective two genders. 

“It is quite simply inaccurate to say, biologically, that there are only boys and there are only girls,” Reykdal mentioned. “There’s a continuum. There’s a science to this. There are children who are born intersex. There are children whose hormones and whose chromosomes are not consistent with their sex at birth.

“That’s now not a debate we’re getting to have nowadays. I simply wish to remind you of our civil rights responsibilities. Our condition rules put together unclouded that kids get to spot and take part in keeping with the gender by which they establish. We’re getting to preserve that regulation.”

Reykdal served three terms as a Democratic member of the Washington House of Representatives from the 22nd district.

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While criticizing President Donald Trump’s recent executive order that prohibits schools from allowing trans athletes to compete in girls sports, Reykdal cited a statistic of how many transgender athletes there are in his state. 

“Out of just about 1 / 4 million youngsters taking part in interscholastic athletics and actions within the condition of Washington, kind of 5 to ten adolescence have recognized themselves as trans taking part in the ones actions,” Reykdal said. “If we will’t accommodate the desires of 5 or 10 family — whether or not there’s privateness get right of entry to for and a privateness alternative for all scholars, that’s what our rules and laws say — if we will’t do this upcoming who’re we?”

Reykdal insisted Trump did not have the authority as president to issue a ban on trans athletes in girls sports but conceded the U.S. Congress does. The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act is a bill in Congress that would carry out similar requirements as Trump’s order and has already passed in the House of Representatives. It hasn’t gone to a vote in the Senate yet.  

“Till Congress adjustments the regulation or our condition legislature adjustments the regulation, we’re getting to apply the wave regulation and the wave civil rights framework of this condition, and that’s what it tells us to do,” Reykdal said. 

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Washington’s high school athletes are allowed to compete based on their gender identity rather than their biological sex. Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) policy states that each athlete will participate in programs “in line with their gender id or the gender maximum constantly expressed,” and there are no medical or legal requirements. 

Bills that would prohibit transgender girls from participating in girls and women’s sports have been introduced but not passed.

However, the issue became so concerning for residents, that in December the WIAA announced a proposal to create a separate open division for transgender athletes to compete in. 

“To bring to uphold honest and equitable festival, participation in women’ sports activities and women’ categories of sports activities is particular to scholars who had been assigned feminine at beginning. The aim of this coverage is to do business in readability with recognize to the participation of trans and gender-diverse student-athletes. Moreover, this coverage encourages a tradition by which student-athletes can compete in a shield and supportive surrounding, independent of discrimination,” the proposal said.

That proposal came weeks after the Central Valley School Board, which oversees schools in Spokane Valley and Liberty Lake, Washington, voted to send a message to the WIAA over the issue after debate at a school board meeting.

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The resolution, “Supporting Fairness and Protection in Feminine Sports activities,” claims the entire board is comprised of female members who have either competed in athletics themselves or have daughters who competed in athletics.

One of the women, an unidentified current cross-country runner, shared her experience during that hearing.

“After I ran cross-country for Greenacres Heart College, a boy who was once biologically male however recognized as feminine competed at the women workforce,” she said. “Pace I recognize everybody’s proper to take part in sports activities, the condition made me query the equity of competing (with) any individual who had the bodily benefit related to male biology.”

In May, a trans athlete competed in a girls cross-country championship and won. 

The athlete won the 400-meter heat race in the girls division with a time of 55.59 seconds. The second-place runner finished at 58.83 seconds. In the finals, the trans athlete won with a time of 55.75 seconds, a full second ahead of the second-place runner, who finished with 56.75.

This week, a civil rights complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights on behalf of a teenage girl in Washington state who was allegedly punished for refusing to play a basketball game against a trans athlete. 

The complaint alleged that the Tumwater School District in Washington is investigating 15-year-old Frances Staudt for “misgendering” the opponent and violating the district’s policies against bullying and harassment. 

According to the document, prior to a game, Staudt asked the school’s principal and athletic director whether a player was a biological male. The administrators then allegedly confirmed they were notified the player was transgender but denied her pleas to have the player removed. Staudt removed herself from the game. 

President Trump’s Department of Education has already launched Title IX investigations into the state high school athletic conferences in California, Minnesota and Maine for their refusal to comply with his executive order. 

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