The Georgia High School Association (GHSA) on Wednesday voted to repeal a 2016 policy that let individual schools and school districts decide whether gender-confused students could join teams for the opposite sex. The association's constitution now affirms that "a student's sex is determined by the sex noted on his/her certificate at birth," according to meeting minutes.

The GHSA is a "voluntary organization composed of over 465 public and private high schools," the group's website states.

The new policy, which passed in a near-unanimous vote, takes effect immediately, GHSA executive director Robin Hines told CNN.

"We don't want to discriminate against anybody, but that includes biological girls," Hines commented to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ahead of Wednesday's vote. "There are competitive imbalances generally between biological females and biological males."

"This is focusing on athletic equity and competitive balance," he said.

Hines added that the move simply reinstates years-long requirements prior to 2016 mandating that athletes compete based on the sex listed on their birth certificate.

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The GHSA's motion comes after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp last week signed a bill reiterating the association's authority to restrict girls' sports to actual females amid rising outrage over so-called "transgender" males dominating female athletics at the high school, college, and professional levels... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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