The board approved the resolution at a special meeting on Monday. It says the initiative’s requirements would apply only to girls’ sports and could subject girls to scrutiny and privacy checks that boys don’t face.
The board also raised concerns about the possible legal, financial, and administrative costs for public schools.
The board voted to oppose the initiative in September. Monday’s resolution restated that position and the board’s commitment to student privacy, equal treatment and access to sports and other educational opportunities.
Board member Joe Mizrahi said the initiative could conflict with state laws that protect student privacy and equal access to educational opportunities.
“Washington has important laws that protect student privacy, guarantee equal access to educational opportunities, and ensure students are treated fairly,” Mizrahi said. “These laws reflect values our communities have fought for and overwhelmingly support. As Board Directors, we take an oath to uphold them. Right now, we don’t see a way to implement Initiative 638 without violating those vital protections. We aren’t willing to simply disregard our other legal obligations, and that’s why we’re asking the courts to help resolve this conflict.”
I’d like to say that the people that vote for this shit are looking out for children and women in spite of their fucking ignorance. I want to say that. But I really think that a lot of these voters don’t understand what they vote for. Period.
If you believe in gender sports segregation, then voting for these things is fucking stupid, but it only took me a few seconds to think of why. I don’t believe in gender segregation for sports, but that’s a whole other fucking thing.
“I don’t want boys playing girls’ sports” roughly equates to one or more of the following:
- Genital inspections on girls (because no one gives a shit if a girl plays in a boy’s sport.) This puts the burden of proof on the girls to prove they are a girl (according to some legal definition of girlhood), as well as take on the financial burden of doing so at their doctor (or I guess letting some fucking rando check them!)
- Removing all sports for girls (again, fuck the girls in particular.) They will do what a lot of schools do and just allow girls to join the boys’ teams. Really solved that fucking problem.
- The banning of all trans athletes from all sports (as well as any athletes that doesn’t conform to some arbitrary gender role.) I mean, they’ll say trans athletes play as their assigned gender at birth, but they’ll transvestigate the shit out of cis women who “look trans”, and they won’t let transmen compete against women for the same fucking reason, but they would be forced to do so. There aren’t enough people in most schools to make a trans team, so they’ll be effectively banned.
This is just the same “Women and children need someone to protect them” reasoning where the women and children are being ignored instead of minding their own business or prosecuting the Epstein client list.
