Teen removed from boys basketball tryouts, told to join girls team over birth certificate error

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/10/19/teen-removed-boys-basketball-tryouts-told-join-girls-team-over-birth-certificate-error/

QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. (KTVK/KPHO/Gray News) - An eighth-grade boy from Arizona was removed from his high school’s boys basketball tryouts and told he can only play on the girls team because of a clerical error on his birth certificate.

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But the multi-talented athlete was excluded from high school basketball tryouts last Tuesday because of a clerical error on his original birth certificate. His mother, Becky Jackson, says there was a mix-up at the hospital the day he was born.

“I give them the birth certificate, and they’re like, ‘Did you know this says female?’” Jackson said. “I was like, ‘Oh, man, that’s so funny.’ So, we come home. Everyone’s laughing.”

Over the years, the fact that Laker’s birth certificate mistakenly listed him as female hasn’t caused many issues – until he decided to try out for the boys basketball team.

The family got a corrected birth certificate, but the school district says that's not enough and is threatening chromosomal testing.

[HAB911]

1. I think he should run with it

play on the girls team

[SamKnause]

2. That is rich.

That is exactly what they are trying to stop.

[HAB911]

3. they never think anything through

[Rebl2]

10. No they

don’t do they. The school district demanding testing to see if he is male or female, ridiculous.

[MineralMan]

16. In this case, just have him drop trou, and they'll understand just fine.

Either that or let him join the girls' team and shower with them. They'll figure it out just fine.

Ridiculous. Of course birth certificates have mistakes on them. Humans make them.

[NH Ethylene]

4. That would be delightfully ironic.

Unfortunately there is a boy at a sensitive age who would be subject to ridicule and probably hate if this gets out among his peers.

[Ohioboy]

5. Yes! That would be perfect!

[Norrrm]

6. Then they will insist that 'she' shower with the girls?

[haele]

14. I can see the school board being bombarded the day after he does...

Honestly, I'm surprised the school hasn't forced to make him participate in Girl's PE classes once Trans Panic started taking over Red states a couple years ago.
Arizona did just recently become a Blue state, after all - and the kid started Middle School 2 years ago. They would have checked his Birth Certificate last year at least.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. The birth certificate has been corrected and he hasn't been allowed on the boys team yet.

[Firestorm49]

9. How the bell did the school even get access to his birth certificate?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. Registering at a school usually involves proof of a date of birth, and an AD's job would include double-checking that

kids are eligible to play according to state/district rules.

[Rebl2]

12. They probably

have to show it for some reason to join school teams to prove you are male or female, which is ridiculous.

[questionseverything]

20. When my grandson played travel baseball we had to carry a certified copy of his birth certificate

To prove he wasn’t too old for his league

He wasn’t that tall but he was strong and hit a lot of home runs so they questioned his age a lot

[Hekate]

13. It's a public document, and in the days when a baby's mother's lack of marriage was stamped across it...

…that was a particularly big deal for the nasty-minded.

We have always had a slew of those in this country.

[barbtries]

18. wow

glad that shit was over before my first child was born in 1975.

[Hekate]

21. Me too. Used to be fairly prevalent -- big ol' ILLEGITIMATE stamped on the birth cert...

In 1959 when I was 12 a young pregnant woman was staying with a neighbor family before giving birth and going back where she came from. I honestly don’t know much of the story except this:

She was visiting our state, and not planning to stay forever
She fell in love with a young Marine who was stationed there
She got pregnant and he disappeared from her life
She went to see his Commanding Officer, who had the unpleasant task of informing her that there wasn’t going to be any wedding because she was the fifth girl to show up in this condition
So being pregnant in 1959 and having no other choice except giving away her firstborn, she came up with a story to tell the folks back home when she showed up with a baby: “We fell deeply in love, we got secretly married, and he tragically died.”
But, when she got the birth cert, it was stamped ILLEGITIMATE.

My mother was absolutely incensed at the injustice and cruelty, which is when I got told all this. Mom told me that would follow the kid all his days, because there were so many things his mom would have to produce it for, like starting kindergarten, and high school, getting a driver’s license, and getting drafted.

Ah, the good old days, when a woman and her offspring would be punished for life for her having unauthorized sex.

My first was born in 1975, as was yours. I was 21 when I got the Pill — when it was available and legal for me, an unmarried college student getting engaged. I kid you not, stories like that one from 1959 were why I was such a “good girl” in my youth.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. I thought they wanted everything decided by one's gentials.

[barbtries]

17. anything we can do to prove how fucking maga we are.

anyone we can make suffer. these fucking idiots.

[Prairie Gates]

19. So they want to put a biological male on the girls basketball team because of anti-trans ideology

Isn't that what they claim to hate in the first place?

It really is fucking bonkers out there.