Boy Gymnast on Girl's Team Barred from Full Competition

	posted by Scott on Friday March 16, @04:56PM from the inequality/Title-IX dept.
	Jim Castelli submitted this Boston Globe story and writes, "Mark Scialdone is a boy, but was chosen for this season's Globe's girls' All-Scholastic squad as a gymnast. In 1978, 136 NCAA colleges had men's gymnastics, now only 24 do. In MA, only 8 high schools have boy's gymnastics teams. This year when he accompanied his Beverly, MA team as captain to the New England Girls Gymnastics Championship, he was told that his scores would not be allowed."'Technically he was a non scoring participant,' said Haig Varadian, executive director of the Council of New England Secondary Schools Principals Association....'The Council feels its an invasion of the girl's tournament...The playing field isn't level when you have a boy competing against girls.'" But in the wake of Title IX, the girls' teams may be the only playing field left for male gymnasts.

	Source: The Boston Globe [newspaper] Title: Gymnast vaults into gender-equity flap Author: John Powers Date: March 16, 2001

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Weigh Legal Options (Score:1) by frank h on Friday March 16, @05:14PM EST (#1) (User #141 Info) If I was this kids parents, I'd be weighing my legal options carefully. Title IX does say "equal access to education" and the 14th Amendment does say "equal protection under the law." I might even be inclined to contact the US Attorneys office, though if Gore had been elected there wouldn't be even as much as a snowball's chance there.

Re:Weigh Legal Options (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Friday March 16, @05:46PM EST (#2) I agree. I was a gymnast who could not compete for my high school because they cut the men's team before I attended. So I joined a YMCA team, which was nowhere near the same. Marc

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