Virginia High School League's new transgender athletic policy requires sexual reassignment surgery and HRT - See more at: http://www.transadvocate.com/virginia-high-school-leagues-new-transgender-athletic-policy-requires-sexual-reassignment-surgery-and-hrt.htm#sthash.O7OEutLm.dpuf
http://www.transadvocate.com/virginia-high-school-leagues-new-transgender-athletic-policy-requires-sexual-reassignment-surgery-and-hrt.htm
Kelli Busey from TransAdvocate

[. . .] the new policy which was passed 27-0, requires the exclusion of all teenage transgender athletes except the ones who have undergone sexual reassignment surgery and are undergoing hormone-replacement therapy (HRT).

The policy which requires surgical modifications of adolescents makes no distinction between male to female (MTF) and female to male (FTM) athletes.

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That sounds like an untrans policy. I never heard of SRS before puberty.

HRT for a year is a sound policy for sports due to the performance difference that the endocrine system makes. It is also a Fairly common practice.

Requiring srs on the other hand has no justification as far as I can see. I have only heard of a handful of people high school age getting srs, and I don't think it is at all a reasonable requirement.

It is weird that in a state that requires nothing more than a physiatrist or even a nurse to sign a paper saying your gender identity to get an F or M on your drivers licsence would have such a draconian policiy for the one type of sports people aren't even getting paid for.

Quote from: Hikari on February 22, 2014, 07:13:48 AM
It is weird that in a state that requires nothing more than a physiatrist or even a nurse to sign a paper saying your gender identity to get an F or M on your drivers licsence would have such a draconian policiy for the one type of sports people aren't even getting paid for.

Someone has an anti-trans agenda and they found a way to prevent trans kids from being able to participate in sports. That's all this is.

I look for someone to legally challenge this law sooner or later because of its discrimination, and it's draconian and unreasonable nature.

Quote from: LordKAT on February 22, 2014, 06:53:46 AM
That sounds like an untrans policy. I never heard of SRS before puberty.

The policy is discriminatory on its face.  One way around it is to get your birth certificate legally changed.

Furthermore, having to make a declaration that you have had SRS is a violation of privacy rights and HIPAA.

However, that one clause may refer to those who were born with ambiguous genitalia and had corrective surgery.

Thing is in VS you need "permanent" surgery to get a birth cert change, this means that an orchi or hydro could count it but it would still be beyond the level of transition most high schoolers have attained.

See you can get your IDs issued by the state changed without any surgery but, the requirements for an amended birth cert are greater....now if you were born in a state or country that would let you change your birth cert without sea then sure, it could be a loophole.