UIL enters gender politics debate with proposed birth certificate requirement
ROUND ROCK - The University Interscholastic League is finally set to wade into the contentious debate of gender politics.
On Monday during its 75th annual meeting, the UIL's Legislative Council created a referendum ballot to be voted on by Texas' superintendents, asking that a birth certificate be used to determine a student-athlete's gender.
Referendum ballots typically are sent to superintendents in January. If they pass it, and it is signed into action by the state's commission of education, the UIL - the state's governing body for extra-curricular activities in public schools - must put the rule into place.
According to the league's policy director, Jamey Harrison, the proposed rule isn't much of a change in the league's current procedures. Although the rule hadn't been codified into the constitution, the league had been advising school districts to use birth certificates when questions of gender came up.
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