Fri Sep 1, 2023 – 10:29 pm EDT
JUNEAU, Alaska (LifeSiteNews) — Alaska is the latest Republican-led state moving to protect girls’ sports from the encroachment of so-called “transgender” male athletes.
The Alaska Board of Education on Thursday voted in favor of banning males from competing on girls’ high school athletic teams. The proposal, which passed unanimously, states, “if a separate high school athletics team is established for female students, participation shall be limited to females who were assigned female at birth.”
All board members were appointed by Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who has made protecting women’s sports one of his policy priorities.
Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor, a Republican who was also appointed by Dunleavy, must approve the proposal before it can take effect, the Associated Press reported.
One Alaska school district, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District, has already adopted a policy requiring athletes to compete based on their actual sex.
“We clearly have a duty to promote the principles of fairness and equity for biological women and girls,” board member Bob Griffin prior to the vote, noting that Alaskan Olympic swimmer Lydia Jacoby’s “best time ever posted is almost 4 seconds slower than the
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