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IFI’s Smith on IHSA transgender sports policy: ‘Dignifying trans ideology as normal will go down in history as a travesty’
David E. Smith, executive director of the Illinois Family Institute, is weighing in on the Illinois High School Association's (IHSA) refusal to comply with a federal executive order that bans biological males from competing in female sports, calling the organization's stance “radical,” “anti-science” and harmful to young women and girls.

IHSA official on organization's trans athlete stance: ‘There has been no recent vote by the IHSA Board on this matter’
A top official at the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) says the organization’s stance on transgender athlete participation has not changed recently and that no new vote has been taken by its Board of Directors, despite public and political pressure following a federal executive order banning biological males from female sports.