Alaska is on track to become the latest state to ban trans-identified males from competing in women’s sports, as nearly half of U.S. states have measures in place designed to preserve fair competition for female athletes.
On Thursday, the Alaska State Board of Education & Early Development approved an amendment to state law declaring that “if a separate high school athletics team is established for female students, participation shall be limited to females who were assigned female at birth.”
As noted in a memo published in advance of Thursday’s board meeting, the changes to state law require any school district wishing to join the Alaska School Activities Association to administer “interscholastic activities in a manner that [ensures] fairness, safety, and equal opportunity for female students in high school athletics by limiting participation in separate high school athletics teams for female students in competitive or contact sports to females who were assigned female at birth.”
The memo also stated that adopting the regulation change is contingent upon “Department of Law review and approval.” The Alaska Department of Law is led by Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor, a Republican.
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