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Washington state passes ballot measure banning trans girls from school sports
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2026
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Epstein is getting hard in is grave
That is just humiliating. These aren’t professional sports leagues for god’s sake.
What the fuck.
And specifically targeting girls. How the fuck does something like this even get on the ballot?
Brian Heywood, a republican millionaire who moved to WA from California to "escape liberals", has been abusing the ballot initiative system here using his wealth for years. He (and his PAC "Let's Go Washington") purposefully makes them misleading or otherwise confusing to understand in order to get them passed.
A silver lining is that most of his initiatives haven't passed (such as the initiative to repeal the millionaire tax), and those few that have over the years have been gutted, heavily modified, or found to be unconstitutional in the state supreme court. The supreme court here just became even more left leaning, and since the way he wrote the initiative makes it only apply to girls, it's likely to be thrown out.
Thankfully it's got a good shot at being ruled unconstitutional, assuming the supreme court doesn't fuck that up too.
Can the state supreme court block it?
The measure "may" force girls to endure invasive and extreme genital exams? I'm pretty sure having one's genitals examined, especially when a minor, is invasive and extreme.
I wonder if they're required to satisfy the federal standard for sex identification. That would require more than a genital exam. It would require capturing a zygote.
Pretty invasive.
Did you mean capturing a gamete? As in, a viable sperm cell or egg? Which proves that the individual is biologically capable of producing those gametes, which means they are capable of producing viable offspring?
Because capturing a zygote (a viable egg that has been successfully fertilized by a viable sperm cell, but hasn’t yet implanted itself on the uterine wall to become an embryo) would require a woman to have a fertilized egg. And I feel like requiring impregnation just to confirm sex is a little… Impractical?
It would mean positively identifying males would be impossible, because they’re not capable of carrying a zygote at all. That that’s before we even get into the whole “in order to confirm an elementary school girl is biologically female so she can compete, the doctor would first need to impregnate her to create a zygote” thing.
I did indeed mean gamete, and thank you for the correction.
Will I don't support the ban. This seems a little over the top. Invasive and extreme? Any kid getiing regual exams yearly by their doctor get a genital check. That is enough I am sure. Where it gets complicated is with the poor, who can't afford to have a regular pediatrician. But sadly they usually can't afford to play school sports often. So there are a ton of problems with all this, like a ton. But I don’t think there are going to be any invasive and extreme exams as a result. With all the real problems this creates, can't we just stick to those?
My kid didn't, I was told vaginal exams only start when they become sexually active.
Vaginal exam is more than is needed to confirm boy vs girl. The docs always just lifted the underwear and looked for any sign of abnormalities that might need treatment. No poking or touching even needed.
I don't remember getting my genitals looked at in regular exams when I was young. Regardless of that, these are NOT health exams--they are to inspect the genitals of the child. That is extreme as fuck. These genital inspections are discriminatory, as boys do not have to submit to them. How anyone could accept this, let alone vote for it, is absolutely insane.
They aren't requiring a specific exam. They are just requiring a doctor to sign off that they are biologically a boy or girl. This basically come down to lifting the underwear and looking down, which is what is normally done at an early are to check for abnormalities that may need to be addressed. No touching even need to take place. At a very young age, like pre 1 or so, they do a bit more detailed checking for issues. So if you have the same doc, they could sign off based on that alone.