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CURTIS, NEb. – Any possibility of a statewide policy on transgender students' participation in school activities is off the table unless — or until — a member school district of the Nebraska School Activities Association brings forward a proposal.

The earliest that could happen is November, said Alan Garey, chairman of the association's board of directors. The association already has completed its two rounds of district meetings for the current school year, and no such proposal was brought forward.

Those meetings, held annually in November and January, mark the start of the association's legislative process and the point at which members can submit proposals or advance them on behalf of the board.

"There's no outcry from our members right now that compels the board to move forward," said Garey, superintendent of the Medicine Valley Public Schools in Curtis. "That's why we've taken the stance that we have."

Garey and other board members said last August that any policy proposal on the matter would have to go through the organization's standard legislative process. The issue was a topic of discussion at the board's August meeting, but no action was taken.