'Keep boys out of girls' sports'

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2013-05-17 19:35

Article here. Excerpt:

'Participation is the objective of federal Title IX and other rules that have opened innumerable opportunities for girls and women in academics and sports.

Now, a growing movement in Pennsylvania threatens to turn that idea on its head by limiting girls' participation through a side door in the legal framework for high school girls' sports.

Only one in 27 girls competed in high school sports when Title IX was adopted in 1972; now two in five are on high school teams.

In 1975, the Commonwealth Court rejected a Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association rule that had barred girls from practicing or competing against boys. Then, such competition often was the only means for girls to even attempt to compete in interscholastic sports, and the state's equal rights law, also passed in 1972, forbade gender-based discrimination.'

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2013-05-18 17:58