Alaska education board votes to ban transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports

A board appointed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy decided Thursday in favor of a new regulation that would ban transgender girls from participation in high school girls’ sports.passed a resolution

The only individual to vote against the new policy during a 90-minute meeting was the board’s student representative, Felix Myers, a junior from Sitka, who said the policy could expose transgender students to bullying and criticized the board for spending time on the policy rather than other issues facing the state’s education system.

An effort by conservative lawmakers to limit transgender children’s participation in school sports through legislation has failed to pass in the last three consecutive legislative sessions.

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