- Aug 12, 2014
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Back in the 80s, some boys won a lawsuit allowing them to play on the girls field hockey team.
Back in the 80s, some boys won a lawsuit allowing them to play on the girls field hockey team.
Back in the 80s, some boys won a lawsuit allowing them to play on the girls field hockey team.
Was their no boy field hockey team? I think there is a rule that if a sport only has one gender (ex: football) then the other gender can play.
There are really some unintended consequences of this transgender stuff. Women have fought for years to have the same opportunities as men in athletics and now the potential risk that the progress is thrown away so that males who feel like women can participate in female sports. It's absurd.
I agree with the National High School Federation's position on it:
https://www.nfhs.org/articles/developing-policies-for-transgender-students-on-high-school-teams/
''Transgender girls (who were assigned a male gender at birth) are not boys. Their consistent and affirmed gender identity as girls is as deep-seated as the gender identity of non-transgender girls. The belief that transgender girls are not “real” girls is sometimes expressed as a concern that allowing transgender girls to compete on girls teams displaces opportunities for “real” girls to participate.
The fear that non-transgender boys will pretend to be girls in order to “dominate” girls teams has never been an issue at any level of sport and should not be used as a justification to restrict the participation of transgender students. Most well-developed policies require that students who identify as transgender demonstrate a consistent female gender identity in everyday life verified by parents and/or health-care professionals. This requirement effectively eliminates the unlikely situation where a boy pretends to be a girl to play on a girls team.''
NHSF allows states to make their own rules. Only about 13 state federations have policies that allow transgenders a realistic avenue to participate with their identified gender.
There was a post about lawsuits that might arise from a transgender girl injuring a pitcher with a line drive.
Is that not also a concern when you have a girl who has signed to play with Tennessee batting against a B-level high school pitcher? Or even a rec pitcher who is the best that the opposing high school has to offer? Or a pitcher who throws 62 mph facing a rec-level player who might have trouble getting out of the way of a pitch? Is that more likely to happen than a transgender student-athlete injuring someone?
I do get the concern of the Alaska girl who believed it was unfair. She expressed that very well. I just believe more good comes from accepting transgenders for who they are and including them than by not.