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The Deseret News reports:
After one competitor “outclassed” the rest of the field in a girls’ state-level competition last year, the parents of the competitors who placed second and third lodged a complaint with the Utah High School Activities Association calling into question the winner’s gender.
David Spatafore, the UHSAA’s legislative representative, addressing the Utah Legislature’s Education Interim Committee on Wednesday, said the association — without informing the student or family members about the inquiry — asked the student’s school to investigate.
“The school went back to kindergarten and she’d always been a female,” he said. To protect the student’s identity, Spatafore said he would not reveal the sport, the classification of play nor the school the student attended.
The Daily Beast reports:
Such secret policing of children’s bodies was made possible in Utah by HB11, a controversial bill passed by the state House and Senate in March that banned transgender girls from competing in school sports.
Republican Gov. Spencer Cox was among those critical of the bill, pointing out at the time of the vote that, of the four trans children in the state who play sports, only one of them was a girl, CBS News reported.
Despite the new rules essentially prohibiting just one child from competing in school sports, Cox’s veto was overturned by the state legislature and enacted all the same.
When the absolutely shittiest people match with the absolute shittiest politicshttps://t.co/5IJ4fvR2S1
— 18Hat793 (@Popehat) August 18, 2022
This is the inevitable — INEVITABLE — outcome of anti-trans policies in girls’ sports. Everyone claiming anti-trans policies are necessary to “protect” girls’ sports has set up every. single. girl. (cis or trans) as a possible suspect. https://t.co/b5nPvnl2Cp
— Jessica Luther (@jessicawluther) August 18, 2022