Washington seems to be the last state that is being prepared for a confrontation about their decision to allow biological men to play in sports of girls and women despite the executive order of President Donald Trump in February.
The representative assembly of the intersterlastic activities of Washington (WIAA) proposed two amendments to its policies that would maintain girls’ sports only to biological women and potentially offer an open division if athlete students were interested.
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The state of Washington is prepared for a confrontation on trans athletes in sports of girls and women.
However, Wiaa’s commutation director Sean Bessette, said in a statement to the Seattle Times on Tuesday that the proposals would violate state law.
“The Office of the Attorney General, the Office of Civil Rights and the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the amendments proposed ML/HS #7 and ml/hs #8 would be a violation of the current state law of Washington, affirming the legal review of our lawyer,” Bessette told the document. “The Wiaa remains committed to the following state law, and those amendments focused on the participation of gender identity would not be implemented on August 1 if they were approved under current state law.
“If the state law changed, the Wiaa Executive Board has the authority and would need to alter the rules of the association accordingly.”
The proposals will be voted by the representative assembly of 53 people, but no changes in the rules will be made. The proposals entitled ML/HS #7 and ML/HS #8 are only advice votes.
“The amendment would not be implemented under current state law. Participation in girls sports would be limited to biological women,” the proposal ML/HS #7 reads on the website of the Athletics Organization.
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A person agitates a flag of transgender pride during the march of the town and is handled to the Memorial Lincoln in Washington, DC, on January 18, 2025. (Nathan Morris/Nurphoto through Getty Images)
“The amendment would not be implemented under current state law. Athletics programs would be offered separately for children and an open division for all interested students,” said ML/HS #8.
Washington State Law requires that local educational agencies allow transgender students to participate in interscholastic sports “that align more closely with their gender identity,” according to WIAA.
The Kennewick School Board filed a complaint of Title IX before the Office of Civil Rights of the United States Department of Education against the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Washington, Chris Reykdal, this week. The complaint included a federal “urgent” intervention statement against the ongoing policies of the State that challenges Trump’s order.
Reykdal said it was “inaccurate” to say that there are only two genres during a video address at the end of February.
“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.
“Our state laws make it clear that children can identify and participate depending on the gender in which they identify. We are going to maintain that law.”
Reykdal also insisted on that direction that Trump does not have authority as president to issue a prohibition of trans athletes in girls sports, but admitted that the United States Congress does.
General view of obstacles in an athletics event. (Photos of C. Morgan Engel/NCAA through Getty Images)
Another school district in Washington chose to take the matter in their own hands and challenge the state government at the end of February.
The Board of Directors of the Tumwater School District voted on February 27 to prohibit Trans athletes from female sports teams after a national publicized controversy that involves one of the female basketball teams of their school.
