'Benched for being a girl'

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2012-01-19 02:41

Petition here. It's not an accident I posted this shortly after In Massachusetts, boys playing on girls teams causes a ruckus. Excerpt:

'On Thursday, October 6, 2011, Mina Johnson sat out of Southampton Academy's junior varsity football game because their opponent, Northeast Academy, threatened to forfeit if a girl played. At 5'2" and 170-pounds, Mina is a starting linebacker for the Southampton Academy Raiders. She is also an honor-roll student and is quite formidable on the football field, having sacked Rocky Mount’s quarterback four times during a 30-24 win on Sept. 22.

This petition was started by members of the U.S. women's national tackle football team to show support for Mina Johnson, her coach and team, and the multitude of girls and women who face discrimination in the sport of tackle football.

Northeast Academy is part of the North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association, which prohibits "participation by boys in girls’ sports and girls in boys’ sports in any event hosted and/or sponsored by any NCISAA school." This petition is to tell the NCISAA to adhere to the spirit of Title IX calling for equal opportunity in sports, by changing NCISAA policy to allow girls and boys to play together when only one team exists for a given sport -- as Mina's own school allows her to.'

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Does this petition even have anything to accomplish? The girl is not being banned from playing, 1 ONE team simply refused to play against a team with a girl on the line, and the girl choose to sit out rather than accept a forfeit. Her choice. There is nothing this petition can even do, except rile people up and serve as another wedge. Seems like nothing more then another chance to bitch and moan

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Submitted by Kratch on Thu, 2012-01-19 18:02