John Parks, a monitor and subject coach in Oregon, mentioned the varsity district overseeing Lake Oswego High School fired him after he despatched a letter to state officers regarding legal guidelines associated to transgender athletes.
Parks told KATU that he addressed two letters to a high-ranking official with the Oregon Student Activities Association.
He additionally despatched letters to state Sen. Rob Wagner, together with one final month after Oregon’s state championships. In the letters, Parks argued that the state’s legal guidelines, as at the moment constructed, do a disservice to women’ sports activities.
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Parks appeared to reference the International Olympic Committee’s hormone testing mandates. The necessities for hormone testing fluctuate throughout totally 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 below,” 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 affords a chance to take part.”
Hurdles at a monitor and subject occasion. (C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos by way of Getty Images)
While 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 isn’t calling for the entire 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 need them to have the ability to take part the place they are not ‘booed,'” Parks mentioned.
An athlete prepares to compete within the males’s 4×100-meter relay in Austin, Texas. (C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos by way of Getty Images)
Earlier this week, a Lake Oswego School District spokesperson confirmed that Parks was now 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 School District, mentioned in an announcement.
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Parks plans to enchantment his termination.
“I’m going to combat now as a result of I bought wronged,” he informed the information station. “I… am combating for ladies, I’m combating for feminine sports activities, and I’m combating that it’s honest for everyone.”
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