"we'll keep sports fair and protect little girls by exposing themselves to adults"
Fucking brilliant.
"we'll keep sports fair and protect little girls by exposing themselves to adults"
Fucking brilliant.
According to the initiative, students would have several options to confirm their sex: a visual genital exam, a lab test to determine their genetic makeup, or an analysis of testosterone levels in the blood. The genital exam, which a medical professional can conduct without touching the child, would likely be the most accessible option for most kids.
But it’s unclear who would conduct the exams, when they should take place, or how to enforce the policy.
Any parent that isn't angry at the thought of their children possibly having their genitals inspected by school probably should have questions asked about their parenting
I fuckin' hope so. Shame on the Washington voters who voted for this.
Seriously! My only hope (and assumption) is that no one really read or thought about the bill, they just saw it talking about “keeping biological males out of women’s school sports” and decided it would be more fair if men weren’t in there, without considering that “biological male” almost always means trans women in this context.
Even if that is the case, I’m insanely disappointed that so many people didn’t actually do research before they voted.
Serious question: does this explicitly say that the person whose job it is to inspect the genitals of girls cannot touch the girls?
If not, there's almost certainly going to be a pedo in this position taking advantage of this new rule to touch underage girls' genitalia
The biggest issue is fairness in sports. Cis men are at an unfair advantage over trans women in competition. Trans women have performance in line with cis women, not cis men.
People are just morons and think gender transition means just putting on fucking pronoun pin.
Empirical evidence would say trans women have performance more in line with men.
I hope someone can find a good angle for a challenge. SCOTUS already ruled that similar laws in other states don't violate Title IX or the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, so those avenues are out.
Washington has our own anti-discrimination laws on the books that this initiative probably runs afoul.
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