The Philadelphia School District would suppose a rule ordering schools to prohibit transgender athletes from participating in sports that correspond to their gender identities, according to the reports of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The school district “strives to ensure security, fairness and justice for all students, regardless of gender identity or gender expression so that they can imagine and realize all future that They want “a spokesperson, Christina Clark, in a statement.
“The district will continue to align its practices to support its LGBTQ + students in accordance with the policy of the board of directors 252 for transgender students and not in accordance with sex,” the statement said.
The district decision comes after the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) approved a revision to remove its transgender policy in accordance with the Donald Trump decree called Keep men out of female sportswho has prohibited transgender athletes from participating in female sports.
According to the PIAA board of directors Reunion summary From February 19, the change in policy, which took effect immediately, was modified in the mixed participation section of the genus of the manual.
Before the modification, the PIAA manual included a transgender policy of a sentence: “When the sex of a student is questioned or uncertain, the director’s decision as to the student’s sex will be accepted by the PIAA. »»
In addition, the board of directors has changed its language so as not to ask schools to determine the sex of the students, but rather their sex.
The decision of the Philadelphia school district to continue to allow the freedom of trans athletes is a sign of positive decline for trans people, who have experienced a assault on their rights according to the executive order of Trump.
Philadelphia had originally been one of the The first adopters Progressive policies towards transgender questions, vote in 2016 to allow students to use pronouns, favorite bathrooms and playing in sports that correspond to their gender identity.