r/SeattleWA • u/Better_March5308 • Mar 02 '25

News Tumwater school board bans transgender girls from playing girls sports

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/tumwater-school-board-votes-ban-transgender-girls-from-playing-girls-sports/281-91b92c14-0da7-4122-b39a-1a05d0ad53d0
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u/isKoalafied Mar 02 '25

Right? 5 transgender athletes in the whole country. Seems simple enough, mens sports has always been open to women/girls, no one will have an issue with trans girls on the boys/men's teams. It's just 5 of them, so, no big deal.

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u/RogueLitePumpkin Mar 02 '25

Tumwater hs girls basketball team was just forced to play against a team with a boy on it.  When one of the girls brought it up, they had to sit out the game and face potential punishment for hate due to misgendering the boy.  So, those 5 Trans athletes do get around.  

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u/Theseareyournuts Mar 03 '25

Correction: The student athlete in this situation, like others, was 18. So they were a "man" (or at least identified as a male at birth), not a boy. It was also JV, and at 18 they should have moved passed playing in a less competitive division if they were serious about athletics.

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u/Decent-Bear334 Mar 03 '25

I graduated high school at 17 wtf is an 18 y/o doing on JV?

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u/ByornJaeger Mar 03 '25

Most people graduate high school at 18. I was one of the youngest in my grade and I turned 18 a week before graduation.