Utah High School Activities Association investigated Girl For Being Transgender ? | Women's Sports

<p>Hey Identifier,&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>https://kutv.com/news/local/utah-parents-had-school-investigate-if-a-girl-was-trans-after-she-beat-their-daughters-in-competition-uhsaa-sports-transgender-kindergarten-salt-lake-city</p> <p><br></p> <p>#UtahHighSchool #transgender #womenssports&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (TND) — After their daughters were defeated at a state competition in Utah, parents reportedly asked for the winning athlete's gender to be investigated, believing she may be transgender.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Then, apparently prompted by the complaint lodged by those parents, the Utah High School Activities Association (UHSAA) investigated the winning student, according to Deseret News.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The parents who filed the complaint with UHSAA were reportedly the parents of the two athletes who came in second and third place in the state competition.</p> <p><br></p> <p>UHSAA asked the school to help provide information about the winning athlete, which they did, a legislative representative for UHSAA reportedly said.</p> <p><br></p> <p>“The school went back to kindergarten and she’d always been a female," David Spatafore, the UHSAA’s legislative representative told the Utah Legislature’s Education Interim Committee on Wednesday.</p> <p>The school dug into the winning student's records dating back to kindergarten to confirm that she was, indeed, female at a very young age.</p> <p><br></p> <p>If someone has been a female since kindergarten, it's very unlikely they ever transitioned genders," Spatafore indicated.</p> <p>The investigation into the girl's gender identity was done without informing the student in question or her family, Spatafore added. Spatafore would not reveal the sport the girls competed in, nor the identity of the school that helped investigate.</p> <p><br></p> <p>We didn’t get to the parents or the student simply because if all of the questions about eligibility were answered by the school or the feeder system schools, there was no reason to make it a personal si