Jock Talk: Tackling the gender binary in school sports

Published 01/26/2012
by Roger Brigham

http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=67355

Legislative consideration of a bill that would ensure transgender students access to gender-associated school programs, including sports teams, consistent with their gender identities has been put on hold for a year.

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But when Ammiano amended the legislation this month, it was a drastically altered bill that was referred to the Assembly's education committee for a hearing. The bill as it now is written would amend Section 221.5 of the education code, which mandates equal opportunities in public school programs regardless of gender, to specify that a "pupil shall be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs, activities, and facilities, including athletic teams and competitions, consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil's records."