EVERETT COMMUNITY This requires that a personal healthcare provider verifies one or more of the following: the student’s reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup or normal endogenously…

WASHINGTON STATE STANDARD We have to balance the rights of loving parents with the additional life-saving duty to protect the safety of youth who are victims of domestic violence and child abuse,” said King County Executive Girmay Zahilay, a Democrat. “There is no easy answer here. There’s no…

PRESS RELEASE Last night the No Hate in WA State officially kicked off the campaign season to a crowd of more than 400 people. The event, held at Neumos in Seattle, featured Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, King County Executive Zahilay, Seattle City Councilmember…

LGBT NATION The initiative would require students who want to participate in girls’ sports to provide “a health examination and consent form or other statement signed by the student’s personal health care provider that verifies the student’s biological sex, relying only on one…

KUOW Former school nurse Katie Johnson said schools with large populations of students who don’t have regular access to doctors typically complete the sports physicals in “batches,” so a volunteer doctor…

USA TODAY To play girls’ sports, student athletes, many of whom are minors, could be subjected to blood tests or invasive genital exams. [...] A 2020 Human Rights Watch report on sex testing in international sports concluded that such tests “violate fundamental rights to privacy…

SEATTLE TIMES Experts in their fields briefed reporters on: harmful impacts on student health and safety of IL26-001, such as sharing student information with adults who are under criminal investigation for abusing their own children; likely unconstitutionality of IL26-638 in…

PRESS RELEASE Dr. Lelah Rave, executive director of the Washington chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said neither blood tests nor pelvic exams are included in sports physicals under current standards of care….

KXLY "Many youth who feel unsafe or rejected at home because of their gender or sexuality rely on school based health services, navigation to care, or simply a safe adult to confide in at school. But again, the confusing language around…

PRESS RELEASE In response to the Secretary of State’s certification of Initiative 26-638, Brian Heywood’s anti-trans student initiative, and to the Trump Administration’s continued assault on Washington schools with a second politicized Title IX investigation, Shannon McCann…

PRESS RELEASE Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on West Virginia and Idaho’s laws that restrict trans girls’ ability to participate in school sports. While these states’ laws are both discriminatory and unnecessary, a far worse version might be…

THEM A far-right political action committee claims to have collected enough signatures to put a school-specific transgender sports ban involving genital inspections onto the Washington state ballot. On January 3, the right-wing group Let’s Go Washington announced…

TYLA A political action committee has announced that it has collected enough signatures to potentially get a school-specific trans sports ban onto Washington state’s ballot later this year. Such a ban would require girls to undergo physical examinations in order to…

PRESS RELEASE Hedge fund mega-millionaire Brian Heywood says he plans to submit signatures for two harmful anti-LGBTQ+ initiatives today. If passed, IL 26-001 and IL 26-638 could increase abuse and safety risks for some of our state’s most vulnerable students, including LGBTQ+…

PRESS RELEASE Libby Watson, campaign manager for WA Families for Freedom, said “Paid signature gatherers are promoting poorly written initiatives that will threaten the safety of every Washington student, putting some students at greater risk of abuse at home and at school through…

PRESS RELEASE “Washington Families for Freedom has condemned and will continue to condemn violence against people exercising their first amendment right to gather petition signatures. These attacks harm our communities and go against everything that our campaign…

PRESS RELEASE “The first amendment is clear: we all have a right to freedom of speech, assembly, and petition under the first amendment. This action is designed to intimidate groups who oppose Trump from exercising those rights. This will especially impact targeted groups, including the trans community…

PRESS RELEASE Washington Families for Freedom, a coalition of parents, teachers, businesses, LGBTQ and community groups, is standing up against attacks on students’ rights to freedom and privacy. The coalition includes the ACLU of Washington, Greater Seattle Business Association, Gender Justice…