The draft proposal, which goes before the NSAA board for final approval on Jan. 14, would require a “rigorous” process that takes into consideration hormone therapy or gender reassignment surgery before a transgender student would be allowed to participate in sports.

Under the NSAA board’s draft, students born male but who identify as female must have undergone hormone therapy for at least a year or undergone gender reassignment procedures and would have to show that they do not have physical advantages over students born female.

The two bylaw proposals will be taken up by the NSAA’s six districts during meetings across the state on Wednesday and Jan. 13.

Jim Tenopir, the executive director of the NSAA, said that if at least three of the six districts approve one or both of the bylaws, the bylaw proposal would advance to a general assembly of NSAA membership in April.

There, the proposal would need a two-thirds majority vote to pass and would go into effect at the beginning of the 2016-17 school year.

If the NSAA board policy passes on Jan. 14, the policy would take effect immediately, Tenopir said. A bylaw change, however, would supersede anything decided by the NSAA board.