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This mus be a local restriction because TONS of schools across the nation have both male and female and mixed cheerleading squads.
I just saw a male-female college cheerleading team perfom about 2 weeks ago it was awesome! Very gymnastic.
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by Anonymous User on Saturday February 16, @08:43PM EST (#2)
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Yeah, its uncommon around here (Michigan).
In college cheerleading is almost always dual gender. Sometimes its even all male. But before college its exclusively female
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Here's another article on the same subject.
Because the little kid didn't have a baseball team, he wanted to play in the girl's team, but they wouldn't let him.
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I don't recall that much about it, but there was an article, I think it was here that I saw it, about a high school boy in Mass. (of course) who was a gifted gymnast. As I recall, he started out on the boys team but the boys team was cut (Title IX), so he worked out with the girls team, even "performing" with them. I say performing because he was not allowed to compete, that is, his scores were not included in the final score. In the local competitions, he was allowed to appear, but in the larger competitions, he was not even allowed to appear. Yet every day girls try out for Little League and the leagues are REQUIRED to include them.
There is a ruling in New Jersey that allows girls to compete in boys leagues because of the competitive edvantage. For example an advanced female baseball/softball player MUST be accommodated on the biys' teams. However, in the sports where girls excell, there is no equivalent policy, and THAT my friends, is discrimination, plain and simple, and it violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
There is a Minneapolis based organization called Simply Common Sense. This organization was started by J Robinson, the wrestling coach at the University of Minnesota to bring to light the great problems that the proportionality clause (quota system) of the Title IX interpretation has caused male athletes. Most of the problem has stemmed from the Office of Civil Rights, specifically Norma Cantu, and her desire to help women by eliminating opportunites for men. President Bush appointed a black man, Gerald Reynolds to head the OCR, firing Norma Cantu. Mr. Reynolds has been held up by the committee that is headed by Senator Wellstone of Minnesota and Senator Kennedy. Finally after months of pressure, the full committee is going to have a hearing regarding Mr. Reynolds nomination. This hearing is scheduled for February 26. Mr. Reynolds is against quota's, and has said that he will fight to overturn the inequities that this interpretation has caused. We need him in that office! If we can put pressure on the senators on this committee, perhaps we can, as you say "move the mountain, or at least shake some dust". What we need to do IMMEDIATELY (because there is less than two weeks left) is write letters to Senator Ed Kennedy and Senator Jeff Bingaman, along with each legislator from our our own states/discticts to get Kennedy et al off the dime on allowing a confirmation hearing for Gerald Reynolds.
Frank H
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I know of a young man in Maine who "competes" with the female gymnastics team at his high school. They do not have a male team. His scores do not count, though, so really he's just performing, not competing.
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by Anonymous User on Sunday February 17, @05:59PM EST (#6)
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Okay, maybe it's Maine. They say the memory is the second thing to go...
Frank H
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He can now participate in the competition.
There's a link on obscurestore.com (too lazy to look up the URL now)
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It just goes to show you that the feminist movement is not about equality but power. If NOW and other feminist organizations were really conserned about equality they would be just as viligent about cases where men are not allowed equal access. (soory I haven't been posting more frequently but I have been mentally and emotionally busy with school and monitoring feminist rhetoric.)
Tony H
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