A Utah State Board of Education member was stripped of her committee assignments and asked to resign this week after she questioned the gender of a high school basketball player in a Facebook post.
Natalie Cline, the board member, posted photos of a flier and a banner for a high school basketball team in Salt Lake County on Feb.
6 with the caption “Girls’ basketball,” suggesting that one of the girls featured in the images, who had short hair, was not female.
The post, which was reported on by KSL TV, a television channel in Salt Lake City, has since been deleted. The board said Wednesday that, after an investigation, it had decided to censure Ms.