Alaska education board supports keeping transgender girls off girls sports teams

In an unannounced move, the Alaska board of education unanimously passed a resolution Thursday afternoon that urges the state education department to limit the participation of transgender girls in girls school sports. The resolution, which is non-binding, encourages the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development to adopt a policy that would ban transgender girls from competing alongside girls who are cisgender — meaning their gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth — in school sports. The resolution asks the education department to create two sports divisions: one exclusively...