Politically Incorrect Soccer Injuries

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"Suppose you ran a physical education program and discovered that girls were much more likely to suffer serious injuries than boys are. Before recruiting any more girls, would you want to alert them to this fact?
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I’m not surprised at the advocates’ reluctance, because for decades it’s been politically incorrect to discuss certain gender differences when it comes to sports. The pendulum swung from one extreme — telling girls that they were too weak to compete — to the other extreme portraying girls as just smaller versions of boys: just as interested in competitive sports, just as likely to benefit from the long training required to become elite college athletes. What started out as an understandable desire to give girls equal opportunities turned into a campaign to legally mandate equal outcomes. If girls seemed to show less interest than boys did in competitive sports, it was blamed on discrimination.

...But in order to keep the number of male and female players balanced to comply with Title IX, the men’s lacrosse team had to cut men from its roster.

‘’The men’s coach has been turning players away while the women’s coach has been literally begging women to fill out the roster,'’ Ms. Yow said. ‘’I want to encourage women athletes, but we can’t ignore the real issues we face.'’"