The Alaska state board of education voted Thursday to support banning transgender girls from competing on high school girls athletic teams, sending the issue to the attorney general.
in K-12 schools. Some of the laws also keep transgender boys off boys teams, and some apply the ban to college athletics.
Board member Bob Griffin said he had no personal objections to how people choose to express their gender identify. To show the difference between the abilities of boys and girls, he pointed to Lydia Jacoby, the Seward, Alaska, teenager who came out of nowhere to win the Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter breaststroke at the Tokyo Games in 2021.
Myers, a student at Sitka High School in southeast Alaska, said transgender students are not looking for a competitive advantage, as many claim. Instead, he said, the idea of transgender women intentionally transitioning to compete in sports is a stretch."If someone is truly going to go out of their way to identify this way, that is a huge sacrifice,” he said. “They are the bravest, bravest students among us.
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