{"id":2126,"date":"2015-09-07T08:03:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T13:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2015-09-07T08:03:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T13:03:34","slug":"south-dakota-keeps-trans-inclusive-sports-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2126","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota keeps trans-inclusive sports policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A policy in South Dakota that allows students to play on the sports teams of their gender identity has survived a review by the state&#8217;s activity board.?Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/2015\/08\/27\/6385167_group-mulls-changes-to-transgender.html?rh=1\">Associated Press:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The South Dakota High School Activities Association Thursday gave preliminary approval to some revisions to the 2014 policy such as establishing an independent hearing officer ? rather than a committee ? to evaluate applications. But they retained the basic policy of allowing students to request their choice of team. A legislative committee studying the association voted last week to draft a measure to confine students to the team matching the gender on their birth certificates, which could go to the Legislature in the upcoming session.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>Some legislators have even gone so far as to suggesting that students genitals be checked before they are allowed to play on a team. Which is a completely reasonable response to this issue&lt;\/sarcasm&gt;. Trans rights advocates have said that they would strenuously oppose any change to the existing policy.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman A policy in South Dakota that allows students to play on the sports teams of their gender identity has survived a review by the state&#8217;s activity board.?Via Associated Press: The South Dakota High School Activities Association Thursday gave preliminary approval to some revisions to the 2014 policy such as establishing an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[344,343,277,122],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-birth-certificates","tag-south-dakota","tag-sports","tag-trans-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}