The Alaska State Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution Thursday urging the state to only allow biological girls to participate in girls’ sports – recommending a separate league for athletes who don’t identify with their birth sex.

The resolution, which was added to the board’s agenda at the last minute, advises the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development to create the separate divisions. All eight members supported it while the student adviser abstained.

A copy of the resolution obtained by the Anchorage Daily News showed where board members recognized the “integrity of middle and high school girls’ sports should be preserved.”

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“We’re making a statement of keeping girls’ sports safe and competitive and fair, that’s all,” board chair James Fields told the Daily News via The Associated Press.

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