Dunleavy administration pushes for policy change to limit transgender athletes in Alaska schools | National

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska education department is moving forward with a recommendation to limit the ways transgender kids can participate in school sports, amid no movement from the Legislature on bills involving transgender youths.

The move by Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration follows his thwarted effort earlier this year to limit transgender kids’ use of bathrooms and locker rooms according to their chosen gender in public schools. Opponents say it is part of a pattern of Republicans nationwide attacking the rights of transgender youths — which has increasingly become part of the GOP platform spanning from presidential candidates to local elected officials.

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