The Alaska Board of Education has voted to advance proposed regulations that would bar transgender girls from participating in girls’ high school sports to a public comment period.
from participating in school sports according to the gender with which they identify have failed to advance during the past three sessions.During the board meeting Thursday, several members of the Soldotna High School girls wrestling team testified in favor of the proposed regulation change.
People gather to testify before the Alaska Board of Education on a proposed policy that would bar transgender girls from competing on high school girls’ teams, at the board's meeting Thursday in Soldotna. “They are being indoctrinated and used like pawns in a politically charged cultural war and it’s hurting all of them. I believe any adult allowing children to go through transition should be charged with child abuse,” wrote Allard.
Tobin, an Anchorage Democrat, in a letter to the board. “Why are you so willing to ignore our state’s robust legislative process in this matter?”] Margo Bellamy, president of the Anchorage School Board, wrote that the proposed regulation would cause “an undercurrent of discrimination, hate and fear.” Myers told fellow board members it was “an embarrassment” for an unelected board to take action on a politically divisive issue, rather than leaving it to the Legislature.
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