PIAA ordered to re-evaluate allowing boys to play on girls' teams

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-09-02 09:38

Article here. Excerpt:

'Nearly two years ago, a concerned mother and father from Fox Chapel decided they'd had enough of boys playing on girls high-school field hockey teams.

Mary and Jim Grenen had watched as their daughter, Allison, and her Fox Chapel High teammates competed against boys who were bigger, faster and stronger. And the Grenens, as attorneys who work out of a high-rise in downtown Pittsburgh, felt they had the proper credentials to emerge as instruments of change.

Tuesday, their work in joining hands with the PIAA [Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association] to bring their case in front of the Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg paid off.

Judge B. Kevin Brobson issued an opinion that freed the PIAA -- which had been handcuffed by a decades-old injunction -- to examine writing a new policy or bylaw that would bar boys from playing on girls teams.'

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On what planet does equality mean treating people unequally? That seems rather oxymoronic, if not just plain moronic. Besides, I thought girls can do anything boys can do, while wearing heels no less.

Boys lose opportunities due to girls being allowed to play on boys teams too. If you don't want boys on girls teams, then girls can't play on boys teams either. It's as simple as that. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Tue, 2013-09-03 04:02

There is one other thing they can do to equalise the sexes
and that is to change the rules of the game to make it a total non contact sport and to penalise any boy who infringes the rules by sending him for counselling.Think it won't happen?Watch the football premier league in the UK,they are busy training up female referees and the women would burst a gut to play at that level,they now have female manageresses and they want equal inclusion into FIFA,the people who make the rules.How long it will be is anybody's guess but happen it will within the next 20 years.

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Submitted by saracen395 on Tue, 2013-09-03 16:24