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declare void the transgender procedure adopted by the South Dakota High School Activities Association and to establish a determinant in identifying a student's sexual identity for the purpose of participation in high school athletics.

SB49 overturns a policy adopted by the South Dakota High School Activities Association that governed transgender student participation in athletics and replaces it with a state law requirement that students' sex for athletic purposes be determined by their sex at birth. This change removes the association's authority to set its own transgender participation rules and instead makes biological sex at birth the legal standard for deciding which school athletic teams students can join.

establish a determinant in identifying a student's sexual identity for the purpose of participation in high school athletics.

# HB1225 Summary HB1225 establishes that a student's sex for purposes of high school athletics participation is determined by their sex at birth as listed on their birth certificate, rather than by their gender identity. This change affects transgender students who wish to participate in school sports, requiring them to compete on teams matching their biological sex at birth instead of their identified gender.