Should male-born transgender girls be able to participate in high school sports in the Warren County School District?

The current answer is yes.

The issue was before the school board on Monday.

“The PIAA (Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association) has not taken a stance on transgender athletes,” Superintendent Gary Weber said, explaining that they left the issue in the “lap of the schools to make a decision.”

Noah McDonald brought the issue before the board during the public comment section.

“Everyone in this room has a responsibility of protecting our girls and our sports,” McDonald told the board. “There are some people in this county that are not happy with this at all.”

He asked the board to “make a healthy policy for all the girls.”

But there’s a legitimate question about what the district can do.

“We’re prohibited by federal and Pennsylvania law from discriminating against students on the basis of sex,” Weber said. “As difficult as that is when you see biological males participating… if we were to pass a policy that is across the board ban on anything,” Weber said, adding it “opens the door for a sex discrimination case.”

Weber said there might be “some things we can look at short of board policy” to be “able to handle specific situations.”

The PIAA “really just washed their hands on it,” he added. “(We’re) waiting for the federal government to get through the court cases they have throughout the country. It’s a mess.”