The Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Washington, Chris Reykdal, spoke in defense of transgender athletes in girls’ sports in a speech on Thursday, claiming that it was “inaccurate” to say that there are only two genres.
“It is simply inaccurate, biologically, that there are only boys and that there are only girls,” said Reykdal. “There is a continuum. There is a science in 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 is not a debate that we are going to have today. I just want to remind you of our civil rights obligations. Our state laws make it clear that children can identify and participate depending on the gender in which they identify. We are going to go. To maintain that law “.
Reykdal fulfilled three mandates as a democratic member of the Washington Representatives of District 22.
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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 are in their state.
“Of almost a quarter of a million children participating in athletics and interscolary activities in the state of Washington, approximately five to 10 young people have identified as trans participation in those activities,” said Reykdal. “If we cannot meet the needs of five or 10 people, whether there are privacy access and a privacy opportunity for all students, that is what our laws and rules say, if we cannot do that, who are we? “
Reykdal insisted that Trump did not have authority as president to issue a prohibition of trans athletes in girls sports, but admitted that the United States Congress does. The women’s protection law in sports is a bill in Congress that would carry out requirements similar to the Trump order and has already passed in the House of Representatives. He has not yet vote in the Senate.
“Until Congress changes the law or our state legislature changes the law, we will follow the current law and the current civil rights framework of this State, and that is what we tell us to do,” said Reykdal.
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Washington high school athletes can compete according to their gender identity instead of their biological sex. The policy of the Association of Interscholastic Activities of Washington (WIAA) establishes that each athlete will participate in programs “consisting of their gender identity or the most expressed gender”, and there are no medical or legal requirements.
Laws have been introduced that would prohibit transgender girls from participating in children’s and women sports have been introduced but not approved.
However, the problem became so worrying for residents, that in December the WIAA announced a proposal to create a separate open division so that transgender athletes compete.
“To maintain fair and equitable competition, participation in girls’ sports and sports divisions are limited to students who were assigned women at birth. The purpose of this policy is to offer clarity with respect to respect to the participation of trans and gender -Enter -Attacles of the students.
That proposal occurred weeks after the School Board of the Central Valley, which supervises schools in Spokane Valley and Liberty Lake, WashingtonHe voted to send a message to the Wiaa on the subject after the debate at a meeting of the School Board.
The resolution, “supporting equity and security in women’s sports,” says that the entire Board is composed of female members who have competed in athletics or have daughters who competed in athletics.
One of the women, a current unidentified field broker through the country, shared their experience during that audience.
“When I ran a mischievous field for Greenacres Middle School, a child who was biologically man but identified as female competed in the girls team,” he said. “While respect for everyone’s right to participate in sports, the situation made me question the justice of competing (with) someone who had the physical advantage associated with male biology.”
In May, an Athlete Trans competed in a field championship through the country and won.
The athlete won the 400 -meter heat race in the girls division with a time of 55,59 seconds. The second -place corridor ended at 58.83 seconds. In the final, the Trans athlete won with a time of 55.75 seconds, a full second ahead of the second corridor, which ended with 56.75.
The complaint claimed that the Tumwater school district In Washington He is investigating Frances Staudt, 15, for “damaging” the opponent and violating district policies against bullying and harassment.
According to the document, before a game, Staudt asked school’s athletics director and director if a player was a biological man. Then, the administrators allegedly confirmed that they were notified that the player was transgender, but denied that they removed the player. Staudt took off the game.
The Department of Education of President Trump has already launched investigations of the Title IX in the state sports conferences of the High School in California, Minnesota and Maine for its refusal to fulfill its executive order.
