Language in the initiative claims that kids are already required to undergo verification of their “biological sex” before they can play sports. But KUOW spoke with medical professionals and a school sports official who said otherwise. Paperwork used by medical professionals in sports physicals also shows that the initiative would be a departure from current state requirements for athletic participation.

According to the initiative, students would have several options to confirm their sex: a visual genital exam, a lab test to determine their genetic makeup, or an analysis of testosterone levels in the blood. The genital exam, which a medical professional can conduct without touching the child, would likely be the most accessible option for most kids.

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    or an analysis of testosterone levels in the blood

    Fun fact: that’s not a sex test because cis girls also produce testosterone, sometimes at heightened levels comparable to some cis boys. That’s just how biology does.

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      This is being done by the IOC now. This regulation will force many women athletes whom are known to have high levels of testosterone naturally, to be forced out of women’s events.

      EDIT: If you aren’t aware, the IOC announced a ban on transgender women participating in women’s events in April.

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    Uhhhhhhhhhhh

    If you are so against transgender folks being transgender that you’re cool with a stranger confirming children’s gender by taking a peek at their genitals, you are a fucking monster of a human being.

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    “Sex-testing” children in schools sounds like something you’d find in a niche pervert hentai drooled over by 4chan /pol/ board weirdos; right along with all the other infringements on bodily autonomy we’ve seen from this regime. We don’t live in “Hell”. We live in the fantasy of the formerly rightfully-ostracized.

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      “Sex-testing” children in schools sounds like something you’d find in a niche pervert hentai drooled over by 4chan /pol/ board weirdos

      You’re telling me the party that actively wants to destroy women’s rights while supporting a pedophile in office would… try to do things that pedophiles and rapists would like? Say it ain’t so! /s

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    an analysis of testosterone levels in the blood

    Uh, wouldn’t this make trans girls test as girls and trans boys test as boys?

    Like, don’t tell them if so, because it’s absolutely funnier that way.

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    The WIAA is aware of roughly 10 trans athletes out of more than 200,000 kids who compete across the state, Kesterson said.

    20,000:1 RATIO, FUCKING HELL HOW WILL GIRLS SPORTS EVER OVERCOME SUCH A HUGE PROBLEM??? no choice but to MAKE SURE YOU AIN’T SMUGGLING ANY BALLS ONTO THE COURT!

    I really cannot see this ever passing, at least. Laurie Jenkins would have Bob shot if this somehow passes the house & senate and he didn’t veto, and it’d probably be done with Mike Brown’s gun (tho I similarly cannot envision a world in which Ferguson would ever pass this. Guy’s pretty decent.)

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      I really cannot see this ever passing

      There are a helluva lot of things that “I cannot see happening” that the USA is actively doing right now (and over the last decade or more) .

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    This is Brian Heywood absuing the ballot initiative process again. Brian Heywood is a rich fuck who left California for Washington State because he’s dumb as fuck and thought WA was further to the right. He moved his entire business here and is now using his wealth to flood the zone with shitty, fucked up, misleading, and pointless ballot initiatives in an attempt to make WA what he originally (and stupidly) thought it was.

    Brian Heywood should take his dumbass to Idaho, where they’re happy to bend over while he goes to town.

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    To save women from having “men” theoretically sneaking into bathrooms to see their genitals, we’ve now mandated that all women must allow “medical professional men” to see their genitals.

    … This is what conservatism does to your brain…

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    They call us groomers, but conservatives want to look at little kid’s junk before they can play sports. Fucking gross

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    Why do these perverts care so much about children’s private parts?

    Fucking pedos