In Arizona, a cisgender 8th-grade boy named Laker Jackson was barred from his school’s boys’ basketball team because of a clerical error on his original birth certificate, which listed him as female. His mother told AZ Family the school went as far as “sending the athletic director of Eastmark High to physically remove Laker from the basketball tryouts in front of all of his friends, in front of the coach.” Even after his family provided a corrected birth certificate and a doctor’s letter confirming his biological sex, the Queen Creek Unified School District maintained that eligibility must align with the original birth record and told Laker’s family that chromosomal testing “could be considered.” Laker’s mother described the ordeal as heartbreaking, noting that the district’s demands place undue burden on families, including the cost of genetic tests. She raised questions on fairness while speaking with Scripps News about how policies intended to police trans youth end up harming c...