The Alaska state board of education on Thursday voted to support banning transgender girls from competing on high school girls athletic teams, sending the issue to the attorney general.

Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who appointed the members of the state education board, has said the regulation is needed to ensure fairness in girls sports. The proposal now goes to another Dunleavy appointee, Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor, a Republican, to determine whether it should go into effect.

  • @dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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    71 year ago

    Remind me again how many trans girls there are in the Alaska school system… and how many of those are asking to compete in sports?

    • @Morcyphr
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      1 year ago

      Idk, maybe zero, maybe 100. What difference does it make? This is a group of people deciding (right or wrong) that this isn’t something they aren’t going to allow.

      • @dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        The point is that elected officials are spending taxpayer dollars (right or wrong) on something that practically doesn’t exist. It’s like wasting everyone’s time legislating that people with 2 penises aren’t allowed to wear dresses to school. This wasn’t a 5 second vote that just popped up. This was multiple people spending hours discussing this, drafting up the language, voting on it, drafting up the press release (they have to publicize how righteous they are), printing up new rule books for every ref/coach/school, etc.

        • @Morcyphr
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          11 year ago

          I don’t disagree. Elected officials/governments are inefficient. But that fact is not unique to this situation. How much taxpayer dollars have been wasted on the federal UFO investigation? My own city government has spent billions (with a B) on addressing problems that don’t exist. Now, I admit, I don’t know what “people with 2 penises” refers to, so maybe you made that up to prove some point?