Transgender policies aim for fairness on the fields

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Transgender policies aim for fairness on the fields
Sports officials want to see competition and students protected as a state panel works on school guidelines.

By Mike Lowe
Staff Writer

http://www.pressherald.com/news/transgender-policies-aim-for-fairness-on-the-fields_2010-03-26.html

Katelyn McKay, a junior at South Portland High School, has a male friend at a neighboring school who doesn't like to take gym class and, in fact, tries to avoid it.

"He's a transgender," she said, "and he gets picked on all the time in the boys' locker room because he dresses like a girl.

"It would be nice," she said, "if he had his own place to go to, so he doesn't get picked on by the boys and he doesn't feel awkward in the girls' locker room."