Posted on 02/29/2016 3:34:17 PM PST by Elderberry
AUSTIN, Texas — School superintendents in Texas have overwhelmingly approved a change that requires public school officials to use a birth certificate to determine a student-athlete’s gender.
A referendum ballot submitted to superintendents last month shows they voted 586 to 32 to amend University Interscholastic League rules when it comes to transgender athletes.
The UIL is the state’s governing body for high school sports. Its policy director, Jamey Harrison, told The Dallas Morning News that the change codifies the advice the league has been giving to superintendents.
“When we were asked by a school for guidance, that was the recommendation we gave them,” Harrison said, “although we told them to work through their own process and own legal counsel as well.”
The amendment goes into effect Aug. 1. It does allow other government documents to be used for the purpose of identification if a birth certificate is unavailable.
The Texas Observer first obtained the list of superintendents and their votes.
Transgender advocates condemned the move, saying it will force transgender students to amend their birth certificate, a laborious and costly process, in order to play. Chris Mosier, the founder of TransAthlete.com, told the newspaper that the policy would deny transgender athletes an “equal opportunity to sports.”
Texas becomes one of seven states that require high school students to provide either a birth certificate, gender-reassignment surgery or documentation of hormone therapy, according to TransAthlete.com. It says other states like California and Florida have more inclusive rules.
“At the high school level, we should be encouraging participation for all students,” Mosier said.
There you go.
How about exporting some of that texas good sense now ro the great state of caifornia? :-( :-)
There was a unique moment during the Oscars for me.
I’d always heard ‘sex change operation.’
The PC term is now apparently, “Gender confirmation surgery.”
Mutilating your body parts is apparently a normal thing to do now.
I think the Marxists and irrational satanists already enacted “laws” in some states so people can actually change the sex on their birth certificates.
This law would mean nothing-—if people can go back and “change” their birth certificates.
http://www.lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights/transgender/changing-birth-certificate-sex-designations
I wouldn't say our sense is that common. Texas still lets a boy turn his hot dog into a bun and go compete against real girls.
“Gender confirmation surgery.”
It is how the Marxists flip good and evil in the minds of children and normalize vice-—control the Language.
We have to get back to the “truth” in language.....Mutilation of the body is evil and unnatural and is mental illness (Walt Heyer). “Homosexual marriage” is an oxymoron— irrational and evil (promote vice) “laws” are “null and void”.
That should settle that!
Instead of the birth certificate, they should require a DNA test to determine sex for athletics.
The Lefty anarchists always dumb down the language and the culture. Still doesn’t make a male a female or vice versa. They always will be what Nature and Nature’s God made them, which they know and which is why they commit suicide at a greater than 50% clip.
Another Reason to homeschool
A quick, easy, and cheap screen for sex determination-
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00414-008-0285-8?no-access=true
That’s perfect!
Those trannyphobes...
What of the 23 year old high school sophomores from Guatemala who do not have birth certificates available?
Practically though, most will be too busy dealing drugs and robbing convenience stores to play sports.
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“Texas still lets a boy turn his hot dog into a bun”
Then he would have two sets of buns. I think it is more like turn his hot dog into a taco.
Yeah, your right but I was trying to keep my metaphor contained to a single food.
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