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Originally posted by TXMike
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Would you also support a boy going out for a "traditionally" girl's team?
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Hypothetically, yes, I would if the sport wasn't offered for boys. And I say hypothetically because it's more unlikely that a boy would pursue such. He'd open himself to a lot more ridicule than a girl going out for football or wrestling, just because of the way other boys would react.
We have girls in my area every year who go out for boys sports. I see them playing rec sports together. Last year, we had a girl wrestle at the HS level and the previous year, we had a school with a female placekicker. BTW, she was the high scorer on the team and was voted the MVP of the team by her teammates.
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Is it fair to make the schools make all the special arrangements that are required to allow a girl to participate in football (i.e. extra equipment, special travel arrangements, special locker room arrangements, etc?
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You're asking what's fair. Is it fair to forbid an athlete from trying out for a team just because the athlete is a girl? Because the athlete is black? Because the athlete is handicapped? Because the athlete is Jewish? Where would it end?
What extra equipmentare we talking about? What special travel arrangements? How difficult is it to have a separate dressing facility for a girl? What's required, a separate office or bathroom?
If special arrangements have to be made, I honestly don't see it as that big of a deal. I know of girls volleyball teams that require a school assigned female chaperone because the coach is male. It's an arrangement that has to be made but it's not a big deal.
Perhaps I sound like a bleeding-heart liberal. Actually, I'm probably as conservative as anyone hear. But I recognize that we can't trample on people's rights just because they're a certain gender or race.