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WA SB5097

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/13/2025

Primary Sponsor

Judith Warnick

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) must adopt "competitiveness rules" for girls' athletics that consider physiological and hormonal variation among athletes

  • Rules may permit exclusion of individual competitors from girls' events where the competitor would have an "unfair advantage based on endocrine characteristics"

  • Hormone level testing is permitted to determine competitive advantage or safety risk, but sex verification or dispute processes are prohibited

  • School district boards must consent to abide by these competitiveness rules as a condition of delegating athletic oversight to WIAA

  • Decisions made under these competitiveness rules are explicitly exempted from Washington's anti-discrimination law (Chapter 49.60 RCW)

Legislative Description

Safeguarding competitiveness in girls' interscholastic athletic activities.

Last Action

By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.

1/12/2026

Committee Referrals

Early Learning & K-12 Education1/13/2025

Full Bill Text

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