What the H?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

But they'll let the wrestle each other. Where's the logic in that?

In some states, in some schools, anti-discrimination lawsuits have allowed boys to play on girls field hockey teams, where boys field hockey is not available. This has led to questions about the fairness of school field hockey teams with many boys, playing schools with all girls field hockey teams. Teenage boys, with testosterone flowing, are usually bigger, stronger, and faster than teenage girls.

Has Title IX, and anti-discrimination, gone too far? Due to limited funding, will "minor" high school sports dissappear like some "minor" college sports, men's gymnastics, men's wrestling, etc. Here in New England, Providence College was forced to eliminate its very successful men's baseball program to satisfy the Title IX provision of equal funding for men's and women's sports.

Both my daughters have benifited from Title IX funding in both high school, and college sports. Opportunities were made available to them that were not made available to females back when I was in high school, and college, but when field hockey teams with boys win state championships, and colleges like Providence have to eliminate men's sports, has the fairness "pendulum" swung too far in one direction?