Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits students from participating in sports that do not match their birth sex.

Highlights:

• Requires each public school that serves any combination of the grades 5-12 and that provides interscholastic sports or athletic events for the school's students to direct each student who seeks to participate in a single-sex interscholastic sport or athletic event to verify that the student is of the respective sex before the student may participate in the interscholastic sport or athletic event (Sec. 1.a).

• Authorizes a student to verify the student's sex by providing the school with a copy of the student's birth certificate. A school shall not accept a birth certificate that has been revised, altered, or amended with respect to the student's sex or that does not designate the student as male or female (Sec. 1.b-1).

• Specifies if a student is unable to verify the student's sex, then the student may verify the student's sex by providing the school with the certified results of a genetic or DNA test conducted by a healthcare practitioner lthat establishes the student's biological sex (Sec. 1.b-2).

• Prohibits the public school from allowing the student to participate in the interscholastic sport or athletic event if a student fails to verify the student's sex, or if the public school determines that the student is not of the respective sex to participate in (Sec. 1.c).

• Specifies students may participate in a co-educational sport or athletic event provided by the student's public school without having to comply with these requirements (Sec. 1.d).

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