ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In an unannounced move, the Alaska board of education unanimously passed a resolution Thursday afternoon that urges the state education department to limit the participation of transgender girls in girls school sports.
The resolution, which is non-binding, encourages the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development to adopt a policy that would ban transgender girls from competing alongside girls who are cisgender — meaning their gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth — in school sports. The resolution asks the education department to create two sports divisions: one exclusively for students whose sex assigned at birth is female, and another that would be open to all students of all genders.
The resolution was added unexpectedly to the agenda, on the tail end of the Alaska board of education’s three-day meeting in Juneau, which concluded Thursday.
