sexual misconduct guidelines

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I know, I know, I've been jabbering a lot lately, but I'm craving "shop talk" with os say, several hundred or so friends. Dribble's comment about racism and sexism in another post got me to thinking. This past Spring in one of the girl's soccer leagues where I officated often, we were given a bunch of specific things to do and not to do, all the way from how we addressed the girls on and off the field to how they had to wear their jerseys, shorts, etc. All of it was to protect both the girls AND to protect us from any chance of anything said or done being misconstrued. This was especially important because we have a lot of youth referees, male and female. Many of the guys were about the same age as the female players. I wonder if state associations are going to start putting out guidelines like these for HS refs? Might be a good idea. What do you think?