Birth certificate dispute keeps Arizona teen from boys' basketball team

Teen Can't Play on Boys Team, Even Though He's a Boy

A paperwork mistake from more than a decade ago led to an Arizona eighth grader being removed from the boys basketball tryouts and told he could only play on the girls team. The issue surfaced when Laker Jackson, a student at Eastmark High School in Mesa, went to try out...

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Gene Gallin. Unsplash Images.WILX – 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 erro...

Birth certificate dispute keeps Arizona teen from boys' basketball team

An eighth-grader at Eastmark High School in Mesa, Arizona, was removed from boys' basketball tryouts after his school district questioned his eligibility based on the gender listed on his original birth certificate."I was really upset and disappointed," Laker Jackson said.The 14-year-old told the Scripps News Group in Phoenix he had been training for a year to make the team at Eastmark, which is a 7th to 12th-grade school in the Queen Creek Unif…