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12532. CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP POLICYSchools and business in Illinois have a long history of partnership. The Illinois High School (IHSA) shall allow corporate involvement in its interscholastic activities through carefully constructed relationships with companies and organizations to generate income, promote interscholastic participation, and create savings that benefit its member schools and the students who attend them. The guiding philosophy of this corporate partner involvement will be to balance the IHSA’s commitment to education, integrity and quality with acceptance of financial support for its interscholastic activities, related programs and membership services. Through corporate partners, the IHSA shall maintain a conscious and consistent effort to assure that the Association’s commitment to its constitutional objectives are not compromised.The Association shall place limits on the amount of corporate partners, the scope of their corporate involvement, use of the IHSA marks and the level of corporate identification with IHSA events. The Association shall insist that its corporate partners be quality companies that are supportive of the Association’s responsibility to develop educational programs that benefit its member schools and the students who attend them.Balancing the interests of the parties requires the establishment and clear identification of realistic goals and expectations. Flexible thinking and an honest effort to accommodate divergent interests are prerequisites to a successful program. The corporate partners must be willing to adapt their promotional activities to the constraints of the Association’s philosophy and the IHSA must be sensitive to the practical needs of the corporate partners to use the relationship in beneficial ways.The Association appreciates and is fully aware of the reality that there must be real benefit and value to corporate partners which participate with the IHSA. Efforts will be made by the Association to enable its corporate partners to promote sales through their relationships with the IHSA, identification with IHSA events and programs that benefit the member schools. The viability and success of any corporate involvement requires that the participants—the IHSA and each corporate partner—benefit from the relationship.It is impossible to develop a detailed set of rules and regulations defining permitted commercial activities by corporate partners. It is practical, however, to agree upon certain guiding principles reflecting the values of the Association which must be respected:1. The Association is committed to education, integrity, amateurism, fairness and good sportsmanship.2. The Association is committed to assuring that the focus of the events, activities and programs is on the member schools and the students who attend them.3. The Association is committed to the highest level of quality in all of its activities and relationships.4. The Association is committed to maintain fiscal responsibility that enables it to promote and administer interscholastic programs and events which facilitate optimum experiences for its member schools and the students who attend them.5. The Association is committed to supporting and providing services for its member schools and the students who attend them.Adherence to the constitutional objectives of the IHSA and respect for its values should enable corporate partners to utilize theirrelationships with the Association in meaningful and beneficial ways.IHSA corporate partners involvement is founded on quality, integrity and highly regarded values. Intelligent, informed, good faithcommitment by the participants will assure the long-term well-being of the involvement.33. IHSA MEMBER SCHOOL PUBLICITY POLICYEach member school acknowledges that athletic contests and interscholastic competitions take place in the public. As such, there is no expectation of privacy in the images, videos, social media content, or any other related media materials Featuring student athletes, coaches or other participants at such events. The IHSA and/or its agents or designees may take, distribute and use photographs of student athletes, coaches, officials and other participants at such events and use the same for publicity, marketing and other appropriate purposes, including event programs. The member school will take appropriate actions to notify its student athletes, coaches and participants of this provision.34. POLICY AND SCHOOL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TRANSGENDER PARTICIPATIONThe Illinois High School Association approves this policy and process to address the participation of transgender students in all IHSA state series in athletics and activities. The IHSA allows participation by students consistent with their gender identity subject to applicable federal and state laws. For the purpose of this policy the following definitions will be in place: • Transgender: a person whose gender identity is different than the sex assigned to them at birth. • Gender Identity: a person’s internal sense of being of a certain gender. Note – Although an individual may sense that they are gender fluid, non-binary, gender nonconforming, pangender, gender neutral, etc., or may be intersex (i.e., born with reproductive or sexual anatomy and /or chromosome pattern that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male), for purposes of this policy pertaining to participation in gender specific athletics or activities, the individual’s gender identity must be either male or female.• Gender Expression: The external expression of a person’s gender identity, typically reflected through behavior, clothing, body characteristics, voice, mannerisms, social interactions, speech and other characteristics and behaviors, which may or may not conform to behaviors and characteristics typically associated with being either male or female.