A far-right political action committee says it has collected enough signatures to potentially get a trans sports ban onto Washington states ballot in November, and that ban would require girls to undergo physical examinations to participate in school sports.As the Washington State Standard reports, Lets Go Washington collected 445,187 signatures in support of Initiative Measure No. IL26-638, exceeding the 386,000 needed to advance the measure. The initiative would ban transgender girls from competing in girls school sports statewide. Related Colorado state sports association settles lawsuit by allowing schools to ban trans athletes IL26-638 interprets existing state law as requiring students to undergo a routine physical examination prior to participation in interscholastic sports, which includes documentation of the students sex assigned at birth. It would require school districts and nonprofit entities to prohibit biologically male students from competing with and against female students in athletic activities with separate classifications for male and female students.Under the proposed measure, students who want to participate in girls sports would be required to provide a health examination and consent form or other statement signed by the students personal health care provider that verifies the students biological sex, relying only on one or more of the following: The students reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced testosterone levels. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today As journalist Erin Reed notes in her newsletter Erin in the Morning, trans sports bans with similar requirements have been highly controversial, as they could potentially result in minors being subjected to invasive physical exams simply to participate in school sports. Reed cites the failure last March of the so-called Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which would have amended Title IX the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex discrimination in government-fundedschools and education programs to prohibit schools from allowing trans female athletes to participate in athletic programs or activitiesdesignated for women or girls.The Congressional Equality Caucus noted that the bill could have forced any student to answer invasive personal questions about their bodies & face humiliating physical inspections to prove that theyre a girl. Along with the signatures in support of IL26-638, Lets Go Washington also submitted 416,201 signatures in support of a measure repealing changes to another of the PACs recent initiatives. The Lets Go Washington-backed Initiative 2081, approved in 2024, codified the rights of the parents of public school students into law. As Reed notes, however, state lawmakers watered down provisions that would have reportedly mandated that schools out trans students to their parents.According to Reed, Lets Go Washingtons IL26-001 would restore language to the 2024 parental rights law that would effectively require the forced outing of trans students to their parents.As the Washington State Standard reports, Lets Go Washington submitted signatures in support of both measures to the Washington Secretary of States office on Friday. The Secretary of States office told the outlet that it may take up to four weeks to verify the signatures for the initiatives. Once verified, the initiatives will go before the state legislature, which can either approve them or reject them. If the state legislature rejects them, they will either appear on the November ballot on their own or alongside alternatives proposed by lawmakers. Brian Heywood, the millionaire hedge fund manager and Republican megadonor who leads Lets Go Washington, claimed that roughly half of the signatures the PAC had collected in support of the initiatives were from independent voters and Democrats. This is not a partisan issue, this is a common sense issue, Heywood said, according to the Standard. This has broad support.However, in a statement issued by WA Families for Freedom, Gender Justice League board member Sophia Lee accused Lets Go Washington of playing political games with the lives of vulnerable trans and queer kids.Reed, meanwhile, notes that the trans sports ban is likely to face constitutional challenges should it become law. But its unclear whether the measure would succeed on the ballot. Reed notes that anti-trans messaging from Republicans last year coincided with significant GOP losses across the country in Novembers off-year elections.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.