Dallas Express: Are North Texas ISD’s Secretly Defying Sports Trans Bans?
January 11, 2025
Are North Texas ISD’s Secretly Defying Sports Trans Bans?
The head of an investigative journalist group claims several North Texas school districts are actively trying to bypass a state law governing girls’ sports, and he says he has video evidence to prove it.
In 2021, the Texas legislature passed H.B. 25, which prohibits public schools from allowing students to “compete in a district- or school‑sponsored interscholastic athletic competition designated for the biological sex opposite to the student’s biological sex.”
In 2023, the state passed a similar law, the Save Women’s Sports Act, that applies to collegiate sports at public colleges and universities.
“The Save Women’s Sports Act protects young women at Texas colleges and universities by prohibiting men from competing on a team or as an individual against them in college sports. Sports have inspired many women to cast bold visions and dreams of what they want to achieve. The legacy of women’s sports will be safeguarded for generations to come. Women in Texas can be assured that the integrity of their sports will be protected in our state,” Abbott said in a press release at the time.
Following the passage of the Save Women’s Sports Act, Adam Guillette, president of Accuracy in Media (AIM), visited several local independent school districts to see if they were complying with the 2021 law.
“To our non-surprise, we found multiple districts that were more than happy to circumvent the law,” Guillette told The Dallas Express.
Guillette explained that undercover journalists were told by school administrators that “if you change your birth certificate before moving to the state or before moving to the district, your biological boy can play in girl sports.”