As our kids head back to school this week, a major change in the
fairness and privacy of sports awaits them...
At their Spring 2019 meeting, the North Carolina High School
Athletic Association (NCHSAA) changed their original policy that
required an athlete participate in sports based on the sex noted on
the student's certificate of birth. The NCHSAA instead voted
to now allow students to participate in sports based on their
preferred gender identity, which a student identifies by submitting a
"Gender Identity Request" form. By implication,
allowing biological males who claim to be transgender to compete as
females, means they will also have access to locker rooms and bathroom
facilities in public schools. Are parents prepared for
that?
Students who claim to be transgender will now be allowed to
compete in high school athletics as the gender they identify with, not
the sex they were born. Do you want your daughter or granddaughter
competing against boys on their girls’ basketball team, softball team,
volleyball team, swim team, or track team?
If
you believe it is not fair for the NCHSAA to allow athletes who were
born male and went through puberty as males to compete in girls sports
and share bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers with girls (and vice
versa), would you consider taking a minute to use this
click-to-contact tool to ask the NCHSAA to reverse their gender
identity policy?
Sincerely,
Tami Fitzgerald
NC Values
Coalition
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