The Georgia High School Association unanimously changed its bylaws Wednesday to block transgender athletes from competing in sports under the gender with which they identify.
Going forward, athletes will be required to compete under the sex listed on their birth certificate. The GHSA had previously allowed individual member schools to make the determination.
The measure passed the association’s executive committee 62-0, per a copy of the meeting’s minutes.
The GHSA was recently empowered to make the policy change by the General Assembly, after a Senate bill seeking an outright ban failed to clear the House. Lawmakers instead came up with a last-minute plan to kick the decision over the GHSA, tacking the measure onto a bill banning the teaching of “divisive concepts” in schools.
The new policy applies to all member public schools of the GHSA, and schools that fail to comply risk losing their state education funding.
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