the Utah High School Activities Association, which oversees and regulates athletic events in the state, said during a legislative hearing on transgender athletes on Wednesday.In the athletic competition, the girl outmatched her fellow competitors by such a wide margin that it aroused suspicion that she might be transgender.
The parents of her rivals filed a complaint, launching an investigation into her gender. The school then looked into the student-athlete’s record and found she is registered as female.But rather than be satisfied, the UHSAA demanded that the school dig deeper into the student’s middle and elementary school records, reports the Salt Lake Tribune.“The school went back to kindergarten, and she’d always been a female,” Spatafore said.
He added that if someone has been a female since kindergarten, it’s likely they aren’t transgender and didn’t transition.When pressed by reporters, Spatafore refused to reveal the winning student’s grade, school or the sports she plays, in order to protect her identity.He added the UHSAA never informed the girl or her parents of the investigation in order to protect her from potential embarrassment and humiliation. “If all of the questions about eligibility were answered by the school or the feeder system schools, there was no reason to make it a personal situation with a family or that athlete,” Spatafore told the Tribune.The incident underscores one of the potential ramifications of a law Utah lawmakers passed earlier this year barring transgender athletes from competing based on their gender identity.
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