Arizona boy forced to play on girls basketball team over birth certificate error

[Igel]

7. Sounds like they did exactly that but the school rejected it.

Now, two options seem likely, without stretching much.

Perhaps this is merely extreme stupidity and foolishness on the part of the school (district?--it's Queen Creek, don't know how large the school district is), scared of running afoul of the text of the law.

Or perhaps it's an intentional act of trying to make a larger political point on the back of a middle schooler. They say the law must absolutely mean one thing and whatever common sense or the actual reading of the law may say (in context) they will stick to it as the One True Meaning mostly as a way of embarrassing and mocking those they disagree with, and, well, if the kid gets hurt it's not their fault, right?

With the "book ban" law in FL you saw this--you read the statute, you read the AG's memo of advice, look at school district pronouncements and had to wonder. (I mean, I could *get* the district's interpretation of the law from the text, but it took a bit of head tilting, standing back, and squinting through my fingers. Wasn't impossible, just didn't seem to be in the top 95% of likely outcomes. But it was easier to see once you were told what it was and decided you liked that interpretation because, well, it made a political point.)