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Date: August 18, 2022 07:43PM
Too Tall?
Too Fast?
Too Strong?
Not "Feminine" Enough?
This isn't going to be the last case.
Now, anyone who is just a bit extraordinary will be accused -- or accused for revenge -- just like Salem in 1692.
Perhaps they'll bring back dunking stools next and look for the witches' mark...
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2022/08/18/utah-parents-complained-high/A Utah school investigated a high school athlete — digging into her records back to kindergarten — after she defeated two other girls and their parents then questioned whether she was transgender.
School officials never told the winning student and her family about the review of her student file “to keep the matter private,” said David Spatafore, the spokesperson for the Utah High School Activities Association.
But it came after the parents of the second and third place finishers filed a complaint with UHSAA, which oversees high school sports in the state. The girl won first place in a competition last year “by a wide margin,” Spatafore said during a legislative hearing Wednesday on transgender athletes.
The association often gets complaints, including “when an athlete doesn’t look feminine enough,” he said, adding that it looks into each one. In this case, the school did an initial review of the winning student’s high school record and saw she was registered as a female student.
Spatafore said the UHSAA then instructed the school to dig further “to double check.” School officials called her middle school and elementary school to look at her file, he noted.
“The school went back to kindergarten,” Spatafore said, “and she’d always been a female.”
“If someone has been a female since kindergarten,” he added, it’s likely they didn’t transition genders.
Spatafore said he would not reveal the winning student’s grade, school or sport to protect her identity. But he used the example to show lawmakers that the association has responded to and investigated complaints regarding transgender athletes and that it intends to follow the new law now banning them from playing on girls sports teams in Utah high schools.
It raised questions, though, about how far the association will go in looking at private student records — and not involving the family when a concern is raised.
Spatafore said the student and her family weren’t told because it might be offensive or embarrassing that someone thought the girl was transgender; he said she wasn’t told to protect her. The parents would’ve been involved “if needed,” Spatafore said. But he felt the school was able to clear up concerns by looking at her records instead.
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