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Libby DenkmannHostDavid KromanHostGabrielle HealyA protest at Camas High School putting Washington school sports rules in the spotlight.
Parents and community members are asking how a transgender student can move from the boys cross-country team to the girls team mid-season.
Taking you to Camas for this one, which is east of Vancouver on the Columbia River, in case you're in the Puget Sound bubble.
The scene is a sunny fall day after school on Tuesday, and a group of girls in red and white jerseys are lined up to race.
But when the starting horn goes off, about a dozen of these girls hang back and they walk while the rest of the team takes off running.
This was the start of a protest over their own teammate, a sophomore and a trans student who started the season running on the boys' JV team and switched to the girls' team in mid-September.
And it's contributed to this debate over the ballot measure that is before voters right now, I-638, which would end trans girls' participation in girls' K-12 sports, and it would require girls to verify their biological sex to participate in sports.
Yeah, it's the emotion for people who feel for this trans girl whose picture is being shared by adults on social media and also for people who are putting themselves in the shoes of these girls who protested, who feel like their opportunity for fair competition is being diminished or taken away.
And I think it's a story that's really tailor made for underlining this choice before voters right now.
And the really heated and polarizing rhetoric that's coming out around this issue.
I mean, what comes to mind when you watch like what happened in Camas on Tuesday? Yeah.
You know, the reality is that this specific question, which is, you know, what space should or should not be made for people who identify as transgender, it has become intensely political.
You know, analysts still point to the 2024 ad that the Kamala Harris is for they them.
President Trump is for you as being kind of among the most effective in the last election cycle.
A protest at Camas High School putting Washington school sports rules in the spotlight.
Parents and community members are asking how a transgender student can move from the boys cross-country team to the girls team mid-season.
Taking you to Camas for this one, which is east of Vancouver on the Columbia River, in case you're in the Puget Sound bubble.
The scene is a sunny fall day after school on Tuesday, and a group of girls in red and white jerseys are lined up to race.
But when the starting horn goes off, about a dozen of these girls hang back and they walk while the rest of the team takes off running.
This was the start of a protest over their own teammate, a sophomore and a trans student who started the season running on the boys' JV team and switched to the girls' team in mid-September.
And it's contributed to this debate over the ballot measure that is before voters right now, I-638, which would end trans girls' participation in girls' K-12 sports, and it would require girls to verify their biological sex to participate in sports.
Yeah, it's the emotion for people who feel for this trans girl whose picture is being shared by adults on social media and also for people who are putting themselves in the shoes of these girls who protested, who feel like their opportunity for fair competition is being diminished or taken away.
And I think it's a story that's really tailor made for underlining this choice before voters right now.
And the really heated and polarizing rhetoric that's coming out around this issue.
I mean, what comes to mind when you watch like what happened in Camas on Tuesday? Yeah.
You know, the reality is that this specific question, which is, you know, what space should or should not be made for people who identify as transgender, it has become intensely political.
You know, analysts still point to the 2024 ad that the Kamala Harris is for they them.
President Trump is for you as being kind of among the most effective in the last election cycle.
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