John Parks, a observe and discipline coach in Oregon, mentioned the varsity district overseeing Lake Oswego Excessive Faculty fired him after he despatched a letter to state officers regarding legal guidelines associated to transgender athletes.
Parks advised KATU that he addressed two letters to a high-ranking official with the Oregon Pupil Actions Affiliation.
He additionally despatched letters to state Sen. Rob Wagner, together with one final month after Oregon’s state championships. Within the letters, Parks argued that the state’s legal guidelines, as presently constructed, do a disservice to women’ sports activities.
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A transgender athlete gained a race in Oregon just lately. (Fox Information)
Parks appeared to reference the Worldwide Olympic Committee’s hormone testing mandates. The necessities for hormone testing fluctuate throughout completely different sports activities leagues, committees and organizations.
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“The OSAA competitors guidelines should be aligned with what the remainder of the world competes underneath,” Parks wrote within the letter addressed to Wagner. “My proposal to encourage transgender participation is to supply an open division that’s so named so it would not determine or discriminate however presents a possibility to take part.”
Hurdles at a observe and discipline occasion. (C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Pictures through Getty Pictures)
Whereas Parks raised issues over legal guidelines that supply protections for athletes who search to compete towards the gender they personally determine with, he additionally mentioned he’s not calling for the whole exclusion of transgender athletes.
Parks recalled watching followers on the state championship direct their displeasure towards a transgender athlete who participated in a women’ occasion.
“I would like them to have the ability to take part the place they don’t seem to be ‘booed,'” Parks mentioned.
An athlete prepares to compete within the males’s 4×100-meter relay in Austin, Texas. (C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Pictures through Getty Pictures)
Earlier this week, a Lake Oswego Faculty District spokesperson confirmed that Parks was not employed by the district. The college district stopped in need of going into the circumstances surrounding Parks’ separation.
“We don’t focus on personnel issues,” Mary Kay Larson, director of communications at Lake Oswego Faculty District, mentioned in an announcement.
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Parks plans to enchantment his termination.
“I will battle now as a result of I received wronged,” he advised the information station. “I… am combating for women, I am combating for feminine sports activities, and I am combating that or not it’s honest for everyone.”
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