‘Invasive and extreme’: doctors fight anti-trans measure requiring genital exams for student athletes
Summary
Washington state has a ballot initiative that would require all students wanting to play on girls’ sports teams to have genital exams to prove their sex. Many healthcare providers, teachers, and unions oppose this measure, saying it is invasive, unfair, and targets transgender girls, while the group behind it claims it follows medical standards.Key Facts
- The initiative would ban transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams unless they pass a sex-verification process including genital exams or expensive tests.
- Boys are not required to go through the same sex-verification procedures.
- The requirement for genital exams is called “invasive and extreme” by medical professionals who work with young people.
- Over 140 healthcare providers in Washington have publicly opposed the initiative.
- The initiative is one of four similar state measures following a Supreme Court decision allowing bans on transgender athletes in school sports.
- The group behind the initiative is Let’s Go Washington, funded by hedge fund manager Brian Heywood.
- There are about 10 known transgender student athletes in Washington out of more than 200,000 total athletes.
- The American Academy of Pediatrics has rejected claims that the proposed sex-verification procedures are their standard practice.
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