California school district near Nevada caught up in a dispute over transgender athlete policiesA Northern California school district near the state's border with Nevada is caught up in a dispute over the states' differing policies on the participation of transgender athletesBySOPHIE AUSTIN Associated PressDecember 19, 2025, 12:03 AMSACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Lake Tahoe school district is caught between California and Nevada's competing policies on transgender student athletes, a dispute that's poised to reorder where the district's students compete. High schools in California's Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District, set in a mountainous, snow-prone area near the border with Nevada, have for decades competed in the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association, or NIAA. That has allowed sports teams to avoid making frequent and potentially hazardous trips in poor winter weather to competitions farther to the west, district officials say. But the Nevada association voted in April to require students in sex-segregated sports programs to play on teams that align with their sex assigned at birth — a departure from a previous approach allowing individual schools to set their own standards.
