A small school district burrowed in a deep-blue county is leading the charge against a nearly 20-year-old policy in Washington state that allows biological males to compete in girls’ high school sports, highlighting the growing divide surrounding transgender athletes.
After a biological male dominated girls’ track and cross-country contests, culminating with a championship win in the spring, Lynden School District board member Khush Brar launched a rallying cry. She convinced her district to push an amendment that would require the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA), which sets the rules for middle and high school sports, to replace its transgender inclusion policy with one requiring student athletes to compete on teams aligning with their birth sex. Brar also won support from 13 other districts, after talking to around 100 school board members from across Washington.
“Everybody just wants to have a solution,” Brar told the Washington Free Beacon, emphasizing that she spoke on her own behalf and not for the school board. “It’s a problem that we don’t have a fair, equitable, level playing field for females in Washington state.”
Brar, a first-generation immigrant, rallied enough support to force the WIAA to consider the Lynden amendment, with a vote set for April. Another amendment on the table—developed in tandem by a school district in deep-red Douglas County—would similarly bar biological males from competing in girls’ sports, but also create a third category that’s open to any student athlete regardless of sex.
Victory is far from assured. The WIAA’s 53-member representative assembly, made up of school administrators from across the state, will discuss and finalize the language ahead of the April vote, according to WIAA’s communications director. […]
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