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To participate in high school athletics, trans girls in Utah must now meet testosterone requirements more stringent than those of the NCAA

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Utah – In Utah, transgender females who wish to participate in high school athletics will now need to fulfill a set of health requirements that are more demanding than those for professional athletes who are competing in the NCAA or the Olympics.

Maintaining a testosterone level more than four times below the cutoff for collegiate athletics is part of that. Additionally, students must be receiving medical care for gender transition in order to be permitted to play, despite Utah’s 2023 prohibition on such therapy, which made it hard for students who weren’t already receiving such care to start seeing a doctor for it.

Advocates worry that the standards, which are the first clear guidelines the state has ever published, were intentionally written to prevent any transgender girls from being eligible to play here.

On Thursday, January 2, shortly before 10 p.m., a public notice of the meeting was posted. The meeting was then conducted entirely online at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, January 6. Utah law only requires a 24-hour notice, so that is not a violation.

With no debate, few revisions, and a unanimous vote, the new rules were approved by Utah’s School Activity Eligibility Commission, which is charged by the state with reviewing cases and determining which transgender females are eligible to play high school sports.

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