There are zero boys playing in girls sports in the state of South Carolina.

Posted by Bulwark Takes, Aug 21, 2026Checked Nov 2, 2026

Polygraph verdictCan’t tell

Sources: 3 context
Said: 1 time·
Confidence: 40%

Bulwark TakesAug 21, 2026

The claim asserts an exact count of zero boys playing girls' sports in South Carolina on 2026-08-21, and no source reports any participation count for the state.

This claim is about the present, so it is judged as of the day it was checked.

What was said

… Taiwan, it's, uh, it's making ends meet, and it's boys in girls sports, and she says that she's, she's had a lot of conversations with South Carolina voters about specifically the boys and girls sports stuff, and ah, and that this is the real issue for them. Just so you know, there are precisely zero boys playing in girls sports in the state of South Carolina, because for four years South Carolina has had a law prohibiting even elementary school age boys from being on girls sports teams, so this is a, what she says is one of the top two concerns of voters, is a thing which literally does not exist in the state of …

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What we found

Context. South Carolina Code 59-1-500(B)(3) states that athletic teams designated for females, women, or girls shall not be open to students of the male sex, applying to public school and institution teams.[3]

Context. The bill text and the statute are legal requirements, not reports of how many students actually participate, so they do not establish that the number of boys playing girls' sports is zero.[2][3]

Context. AP reports that transgender athletes make up a small portion of team rosters, and the NCAA's 2024 testimony cites fewer than 10 transgender college athletes out of more than 500,000, but this concerns national college sports rather than South Carolina.[1]

Context. The claim's wording departs from the passage only in dropping the speaker's explanation; the passage's zero-count assertion is the same, so it is graded as made. No source covers SC participation counts for the period.