PRESS RELEASE At tonight’s regular council meeting, Tacoma City Councilmembers voted unanimously to approve a resolution opposing two MAGA-backed ballot measures before Washington’s voters on this November’s ballot.

THE 19TH It’s the most extreme measure of its kind,” said Libby Watson, campaign manager for No Hate in WA State, the primary coalition fighting the initiative. “People are often appalled when they hear that and when they see it in writing on the initiative.”

THE VIEW There's a bill in Washington happening right now that's gonna require all girls just, like, full stop to go through a sex test, an invasive examining [of] their genitals to see if they're a 'woman.' We know what that means…

MARIE CLAIRE “How do you enforce who is “girl enough” to play sports? In my home state of Washington, the most extreme proposal of its kind is before voters on the November ballot. Measure I-638 would require all girls—but not boys—to be medically sex certified before they can play sports.”

GO SKAGIT The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association estimates that of approximately 250,000 student athletes, between five and ten of them are transgender girls competing in sports. That is, at most, 0.004 percent of the student athlete population.

SPOKESMAN REVIEW Heywood’s dangerous idea risks direct harm to Washington’s girls; let them play without expensive tests or invasive exams.

PRESS RELEASE Washington’s blanket sports ban is the most extreme proposal of its kind in the country. Unlike the cases considered before court today, it will require girls who wish to participate in sports to prove their sex through invasive genital examinations. Its impacts will not…

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…