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Virginia High School League’s new transgender athletic policy requires sexual reassignment surgery and HRT

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Source Summary

Giving the Commonwealth’s high school league the benefit of the doubt its possible they thought they acted in a way that encouraged gender diversity in sports with the adoption of the state’s first transgender high school athletic policy…or it could have been a preemptive strike to ensure that not one transgender student will ever play sports in Virginia. Ether way the new policy which was passed 27-0, requires the exclusion of all teenage transgender athletes except the ones who have undergone sexual reassignment surgery and are undergoing hormone-replacement therapy (HRT). The policy which requires surgical modifications of adolescents makes no distinction between male to female (MTF) and female to male (FTM) athletes. The following is the draft that was presented to the Virginia High School executive committee Wednesday according to ABC 13 WEVC. It is unknown if there were any changes. VHSL rules and regulations allow transgender student athlete participation

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Community significance

“Virginia High School League’s new transgender athletic policy requires sexual reassignment surgery and HRT” may matter to community readers because it records a specific intervention in debates about transgender identity and history, with particular attention to education and youth. The permanent record makes that intervention easier to locate and compare with other Collective coverage.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2014 at Transadvocate.com, “Virginia High School League’s new transgender athletic policy requires sexual reassignment surgery and HRT” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to education and youth. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

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The article’s strongest policy connection is family law and child welfare and administrative classification and identity documents. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and education and youth, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Race and intersectionalityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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Clinical and medical analysis
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Family law and child welfare
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Administrative classification and identity documents
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus

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Kelli

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