Verification ballots harm girls’ sports

Ballot initiatives that require affirmative sex verification for school sports create new administrative and social barriers that will likely reduce girls’ participation more than they solve any measurable problem with trans athletes. Because trans athletes are numerically rare, heavy‑handed verification regimes impose large costs on many ordinary girls and schools while serving as political theatre for activists. — If true, this reframes a high‑profile culture‑war issue as a case of policy overreach and electoral signaling with concrete effects on youth sports, education administration, and ballot‑measure design.