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Washington Initiative 638 Would Require Sex Verification for Sports
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- Washington voters will decide Initiative 638, which would ban transgender girls from girls’ school sports.
- The measure would require providers to verify a student’s sex using anatomy, genetics, or testosterone.
- Doctors and nurses say verification would force invasive genital exams and unnecessary medical testing.
- Pediatric nurse Kelsey Gellner warned the exams would create unsafe barriers for cisgender girls.