The Virginia High School League on Monday announced it would not allow trans athletes to compete with teams that respond to their gender identity following another executive order signed by the president targeting trans people.
VHSL has announced policy changes on its X account. It undoes the 2023 announcement that it would not change its policy that allows transathletes to compete in teams that verify their identity.
Following the January 28 executive order, Trump said on February 5, “Men” was “a man.” “Stop women from sports.”
The ban calls for “sales danger, humiliation and silence for women and girls in order to withdraw all funds from education programs that deprive women and girls of fair movement opportunities.” The NCAA and many other educational institutions have agreed to implement the ban for fear of losing federal funds.
“VHSL is an association consisting of 318 member schools with over 177,000 students participating in sports and academic activities each year. VHSL is a governing body, and our member schools are based on policy and guidance. We focus on and rely on VHSL. That’s why VHSL complies with executive orders,” says John W. “Billy” Horn, VHSL executive director. “Compliance provides a clear and consistent orientation in membership.”
VHSL also said staff will make changes to their handbooks and policy manuals in the coming days, relating to the centre that scrubs all the papers in the currently prohibited language database on attacks on LGBTQ people and diversity Let, fairness, and inclusion.
VHSL’s own data shows only 29 student-athletes who have reported supervising student-athletes as trans since 2022.
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