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WA SB5097
Bill
Status
1/13/2025
Primary Sponsor
Judith Warnick
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AI Summary
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Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) must adopt "competitiveness rules" for girls' athletics that consider physiological and hormonal variation among athletes
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Rules may permit exclusion of individual competitors from girls' events where the competitor would have an "unfair advantage based on endocrine characteristics"
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Hormone level testing is permitted to determine competitive advantage or safety risk, but sex verification or dispute processes are prohibited
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School district boards must consent to abide by these competitiveness rules as a condition of delegating athletic oversight to WIAA
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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