High School in Massachusetts Will Allow Student Athletes to Drop Out if Opposing Team Has Player of Opposite Sex
“This unanimous decision was made by the Dighton-Rehoboth school committee.”
The incident that sparked this debate involved a girl field hockey player being seriously injured by a male player.
WJAR News reports:
Dighton-Rehoboth athletes can opt out of mixed-gender games
Student athletes in Dighton-Rehoboth will have an important decision to make in the fall, they can now opt out of games against a team that has a player of the opposite sex, and will face no penalty.
This unanimous decision was made by the Dighton-Rehoboth school committee.
The incident that sparked the conversation was a field hockey game in November when the Dighton-Rehoboth team was playing a mixed-gender squad and a boy on the other team took a shot and ended up hitting a female player in the face.
The community began to question if male athletes should be allowed to play on girls’ teams.
“It was gruesome injuries, and it required a lot of dental reconstruction and things like that,” said Superintendent Bill Runey for Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High school. “This is a situation where when you do mix them, especially with something that had the danger built in like field hockey, as it is anyway, when you add the increased intensity we feel that it is inappropriate.”
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association allows boys to play on girls’ teams and vice versa, if the school does not offer the sport for both genders.
When asked what the association thinks about Dighton-Rehoboth’s new policy, NBC 10 was sent this statement:
“In response to your inquiry as it pertains to the recent decision made by the Dighton-Rehoboth School Committee, the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association reiterates its adherence to federal and state law that date back to 1972 and 1979, respectively.
“The decision by the Dighton-Rehoboth School Committee was a local decision and as such the MIAA does not involve itself in local policy. The D-R membership and participation in the MIAA has always been valued and we will continue to serve them and all our member schools and districts as a resource.”
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why do females need extra protection or we treat them differently
WHEN WE ARE PUTTING THEM IN THE MILITARY and paying them the same or men then men and promoting them to high ranking positions
the enemy wont give females EXTRA protection so why are we pretending?????
correction:
“or”
as
The military used to put women where they could do the job as well as or better than a man. My daughter was a highly-decorated F-16 pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you were a grunt in a patrol that got ambushed, there was no one better than her to come in supersonic to strafe and blow up the bad guys.
Now, with their “equity” quotas, they have women in roles where they are expected to do hand-to-hand combat. That’s ridiculous, and it will get some people killed.
Nobody dares call them out on it. They have a victim to parade.
“The community began to question if male athletes should be allowed to play on girls’ teams.”
Duh
Ah, but what if an opposing team is all girls, it’s just that one or more of those girls happens to have a penis? Will girls from this school still be allowed to withdraw without penalty?
That’s where the semantics game needs to come into play if the sane among us want to have any hope at all. The left wants to co-opt the word “gender,” fine. Sex is a different matter, no matter how they argue. If you have a penis, you aren’t the same “sex” as someone who wasn’t born with one. You can declare yourself whatever “gender” you want, but that doesn’t change what is or is not in your pants. But unlike some congress critters, you probably don’t need that explanation.
You don’t need permission to drop out.