Transgender

Washington state’s governing body for middle and high school athletics has determined proposed rule changes limiting how transgender students can participate in sports would violate state laws.

The Kennewick School Board has lodged a federal Title IX complaint against Washington state officials. At issue: the state’s current policies that allow transgender students to compete on sports teams consistent with their gender identity.

Portland has a new soccer league for queer women, non-binary and trans people

The Seattle branch of the department’s Office for Civil Rights launched the investigation after a transgender girl played in a high school girls’ basketball game last month. This comes weeks after Trump issued an executive order barring transgender girls and women from competing in women’s sports.

U.S. District Court Judge Lauren King previously granted a two-week restraining order after the Democratic attorneys general of Washington, Oregon and Minnesota sued the Trump administration.

After a yearslong state investigation, the La Center School District has been ordered to change its approach to gender identity, including how it discusses preferred pronouns. La Center is pushing back.

Washington State Superintendent Chris Reykdal took a noticeably strong stance, saying they "will not back down."

The lawsuit accuses the president, and other members of the executive branch, of “attempts to dictate medical care by executive fiat.”

Extremism experts say a now-familiar playbook to scapegoat transgender people in the wake of high-profile tragedies is part of a political strategy to sow division and expand authoritarian control.

GOP lawmakers have pressed for years to bar trans girls from participating in girls sports. Those bills have been ignored.