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Nevada board moves to limit transgender athletes in school sports

Nevada has limited transgender athletes' participation in school sports by reversing a 2014 policy, as decided by the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association board's near-unanimous vote.
The new policy mandates that students can only play sports aligned with the sex on their unaltered original birth certificate.
The NIAA's policy states that 'sex' does not include 'the concept of gender identity.'
Athar Haseebullah from the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada criticized the policy as discriminatory, while NIAA legal counsel Paul Anderson claimed it does not discriminate against transgender students.

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