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Originally posted by PSU213
You have obviously missed my point. I was using the third grader as an example of why we cannot take the logic we use for high schoolers and apply it to the lower levels. The point was: just because we both find it acceptable for girls to be on a boy's football or wrestling team at the high school level, that does not mean we should automatically allow girls on the field, court mat, etc. with boy at the grade school level.

Okay then, please explain what logic you would use in not allowing the young lady who originally started this post to try out for the HS football team?

And yes, if you boil it down to the very basic premise, you are not allowing a girl to play simple because she is a girl. But the reason behind that is the fact the boys and girls a different when it comes to physical strength. It is a physiological fact that on average girls are not as strong as boys, and that has to be considered when deciding who can and cannot play.

Actually, it shouldn't. If we going to consider that one athlete may be stronger than another, then we have to apply it to situations where one boy is stronger than another. And that just doesn't make sense.

First, 5 examples of what?

You asked, "How many times through our history have we held a practice to be an acceptable "norm" for society, only to come to the realization that the practice is morally and ethically deplorable?" I asked for 5 examples so I could better understand how such situations would rate.

As for the ethically deplorable issue, it's pretty ridiculous to even suggest that girls competing with boys is a bad thing.

I agree. I've been saying it for two pages of posts now.

Actually there are a number of factors that not only put girls at greater risk for fractures and knee injuries, and fractures early in life create more problems for women than men later in life.

That occurs no matter what sport they play. Girls are far more susceptible to ACL tears than boys but that happens in basketball more than any other sport. They are goiong to be any more susceptible to it in football.

And obviously we must "obey" the decision of the court when making policy decisions. For the philosphical issues though, the decisions of any court does not really matter. I'm not going to change my mind on this just because a court "says so." My philosophical position is pretty firm here, and no court decisions is going to change that, just like past court decisions have had no bearing on my positions on numerous other issues.

I thought you wrote, "...it's pretty ridiculous to even suggest that girls competing with boys is a bad thing,"? I'll just ask you one question. Do you beleive the young lady who started this thread should be allowed to try out for her HS football team?