By SUZANNE DOWNING
Sept. 26, 2026 – Before Bill Hill entered Alaska’s race for Congress as an independent, he spent a decade as superintendent of the Bristol Bay Borough School District. During his tenure, he oversaw a transgender regulation that allowed boys into girls’ restrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams. He never once raised an objection to this policy.
Hill is now running for Congress with the endorsement of the Alaska Democratic Party, which supports such policies. About 11% of Alaska voters are registered Democrats.
The Bristol Bay School District’s administrative regulation AR 5145.3, “Transgender Students and Employees,” was revised in 2017, while Hill was superintendent. Adopted from the Anchorage School District policy, it said a student’s asserted gender identity did not require a formal medical evaluation or diagnosis. Administrators were to develop an individual plan addressing such matters as names, pronouns, facilities and athletics.
On names and pronouns, the regulation said staff should respect a student’s preferred form of address without requiring a legal change. Its instruction for communications with parents is striking:
Staff were instructed to use the student’s legal name and pronoun corresponding to the sex assigned at birth when contacting parents, unless the student, parent or guardian specified otherwise. In other words, to essentially conceal information from parents that they are entitled to know. The regulation thus allowed a difference between how a student was addressed at school and how that student was addressed in a call or letter home.
For restrooms and locker rooms, Hill’s regulation said the district would work with transgender students and parents on accommodations. It encouraged single-user facilities where available but said a transgender student should not be required to use one. It also offered private facilities, partitions and separate changing schedules to students uncomfortable sharing a space. That was a fake solution. The school district only has one campus, and it has standard facilities.
Hill’s athletics provision permitted students to take part in intramural and district-sponsored interscholastic sports consistent with their “gender identity,” saying students had to assert a consistent identity and could not switch between male and female activities from season to season, subject to an exception only Bill Hill could grant.
Parents Defending Education publicized the Bristol Bay regulation in 2024 and reported that the district did not respond to its two records requests about the policy’s origin.
Hill left the superintendent’s post in June 2023. Later that summer, the Alaska State Board of Education adopted a rule limiting participation on separate girls’ high-school interscholastic teams to students assigned female at birth. That later statewide action changed the landscape for the regulation’s sports language.
The sports position in the Bristol Bay document is well outside the preference expressed in national polling. In Gallup’s 2025 survey, 69% of adults said transgender athletes should compete only on teams matching their birth sex.
Pew Research Center found 66% favored policies requiring transgender athletes to compete on teams matching their sex assigned at birth. Both polling companies skew liberal in their bias.
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12 thoughts on “Bill Hill’s transgender policy allowed Bristol Bay boys to use girls’ bathrooms, play on their teams”
Hlll’s a “tough Alaskan”, just ask him.
HillBilly Bill. Some of these really old guys in the Alaska outback certainly have stories to tell about their homosexual experiences. The movie “Deliverance,” cast an examination of the old hillbillies out in the backwaters. Alaska’s own HillBilly Bill seems to fit that example. He and JKT should try and hook-up. Another great LGBTQ experience.
I got a Bill Hill campaign pamphlet in the mail yesterday. On the back, in the top left corner, there is a box that reads:
“Paid for by Alaska democratic party, authorized by Bill Hill for Alaskans”.
NOT an “independent” of any kind. Just another lying, deceptive democrat. They can’t win if they can’t cheat and they know it.
You’re paying $5.05 for gas but at least those 6 transgender athletes can no longer play sports. BTW – Charlie seems to know quite a bit about the alternative lifestyle he seems to oppose.
Damon, what precisely do you mean by “transgender athletes?”
“Transgender” is a euphemism for mentally ill.
Bill Hill is an Independent. You can count on him to work with both parties and get something accomplished for Alaskans. He will be working for All the Alaskan people not Trump and his billionaires.
BS. The Hillbillie is a desperation move because no Democrat can beat Nick Begich. Hill is weak and unqualified. He doesn’t come close to representing Alaska. A fraud.
Bill Hill is a make believe independent, with his campaign coffers lined with demonicrat party money. Nothing more than another sleazeball move to confuse voters, and split votes. Way to be open and transparent, what a crock of Linda.
Paid for by the Democratic Party
You Trump Bootlickers are so obsessed with the personal lives of this tiny percentage of Americans. I doubt there was a single transgender student in Bristol Bay schools during that time.
Broader awareness of trans issues could have made the world a safer, more accepting place for the minuscule number of people who are born hermaphroditic or not clearly one sex or the other. Instead, it became a counter-culture trend on the far left and an all-consuming obsession on the right. Ugh. Good job, you obtrusive nitwits!
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