During a public hearing on a bill that would ban transgender girls from competing in high school girls’ sports in Wiscon
A proposed ban on transgender athletes playing female school sports in Utah would affect transgender girls like this 12-year-old swimmer seen at a pool in Utah on Feb. 22, 2021.
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, which governs high school sports in Wisconsin, does not keep statistics on the number of transgender athletes.on a bill that would ban transgender girls from competing in high school girls’ sports in Wisconsin, bill co-author Rep. Barbara Dittrich, R-Oconomowoc, was asked if she knew how many transgender athletes were competing in Wisconsin K-12 sports.
Matthews finally said Dittrich had heard six individuals connected to six different teams complain about their daughters having to compete against transgender athletes.But that just amounts to a restating of the claim. At the time, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel asked for examples of transgender athletes competing in Wisconsin that Dittrich was citing. Her office provided two unnamed athletes and their races, but a Journal Sentinelfrom May 2021 found both athletes were adults who were not competing in school sports and would not be affected by the bills.
But Todd Clark, WIAA communications director, told us the WIAA has no way of confirming the number of trans athletes participating in interscholastic athletics in Wisconsin because it does not track notifications sent to its office.
The number she cited referenced complaints made to her office more than two years ago when the bill was originally introduced. But she only provided two specific examples at the time, and both were found to be adults not competing in school sports.The WIAA has heard some concerns and"very few" notifications about transgender athletes.
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