By COLE REIF
Great Bend Post
At this month’s study session, the Barton Community College Board of Trustees declared their intent on adopting the Fairness in Women Sports Act. The policy comes from the Kansas Legislature and states no biological males can compete with all-female teams.
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At Tuesday’s board meeting, Vice President of Student Services Angie Maddy informed the Barton Trustees of a clarifying detail that the college will get the student’s biological sex information from the admissions application.
"The application is where we ask individuals all kinds of things about their identity, including how they see themselves and how they describe themselves as male or female," said Maddy. "There's no big sign up list for one of the teams. Their identifying information is the admissions application. This identifies that as the document we would go back to."
The admissions application will identify the biological sex from an original birth or adoption certificate. If biological sex at birth is unable to be determined, the student shall be eligible to participate in male or coed athletic activities only.
After hearing the slight tweak to the policy, the Barton Trustees are expected to approve the Fairness in Women Sports Act at next month’s meeting.