Boys tryout for girls teams.

[SMEngmann]

Although I have different feelings about individual sports such as golf and tennis, team sports, so long as there's a gender equivalent team should remain gender exclusive. It just is not the right atmosphere for there to be a mixed gender environment on a sports team. Definitely not on a scholastic or collegiate sports team.

Also, I don't officiate soccer, but I understand from a buddy who does NCAA soccer that in HS, whenever a girl plays on a boys team due to not having a girls team to play on, that the rules for the game change, as slide tackling is no longer permitted in the game, although it is allowed in both mens and womens soccer. Too many safety issues here.

However, I do think women should have the right to try to play professional sports at any level so long as they can compete. They should be able to do this because of the extra exposure of the NBA versus the WNBA for instance. However, they'd have to be able to compete. Just my two cents.