Supporters call it a matter of fairness, opponents say it is anti-transPublished: Mar. 26, 2024 at 2:26 PM AKDTJUNEAU, Alaska - Following an hour-long, often emotional public testimony Monday, the House Education Committee has voted to advance Rep. Jamie Allard’s a student athlete gender identity bill, known asThe bill would require Alaska public schools to only allow students to play on boys or girls sports teams of the gender they were assigned on their birth certificates.
“Requires students to play according to their biological sex,” Allard writes in her sponsor statement. “Our girls deserve a fair playing field. They deserve the chance to win first place, scholarships, and gold medals.” “Trans women are not women, they are men biologically,” Rosales said. “That’s what they are. I understand we need to bring everybody in and do well with them, do well by them really, but we’re blurring those lines, we really are. We’re allowing little boys to go into little girl’s locker rooms, and that’s were it starts.”