No son of mine is competing vs girls and no daughter of mine is taking on boys, it's called......common sense.
Any guy who needs to compete vs the girls has a problem. Identify as anything ya want but you can't compete in female sports.
By the time I was 14ish I could whip all three of my older sisters in a free for all werestling match, that would end up.......mom mom Deno is too rough, which brought, Mom......don't hurt you sisters son.
This whole thing is ridiculous and we all know it, SAFP couldn't place in the Cali State High School boys 100m.
Who in the hell 'wrestles' their older sisters at 14?
I don't think this incident is going to make a difference one way or the other.
The bigger issue of litigating everything related to sports is going to be the downfall of scholastics sports. This is just one more nail in that coffin.
The gender issue is going to be the eventual downfall of gender-based sports altogether.
And NOW, the injured player's school is saying they will forfeit the rest of their games vs. this school.
A LITTLE LATE, don't you think?
If every team and or singular opponent refused to participate against males competing as females, this problem would go away. The only way sporting groups/schools will take action is if it affects profit.
Any male friend or relative that doesn't beat that confused "girl" into the ground should be ashamed of themselves.
Advocating for violence against a trans person has 11 upvotes and 2 downvotes. 1 before I got here.
Ignorant thread started by an ignorant poster, trying to apply their bigoted agenda to normal occurrences in sport.
Volleyball by its nature includes hard serves and spikes. As a woman playing volleyball up the national level, I have been on both the sending and receiving end of hits like this.
It is perfectly normal. Concussion is part of the sport and we do need good return-to-play protocols. But gender has nothing to do with it; women can send the ball this fast at the youth level.
The truth is I would go to war for the trans folks against you ignoramuses, even though I don’t understand the trans folks, and I don’t care that much about them, but I really detest you bullies who want to ostracize them.
And the issue at hand is a man playing on a women's team against women.
Issue brought up by OP is the assumption that women can’t handle one random trans person in a volleyball match
The reality is that:
1-some division 1 female volleyball prospects are stronger and faster than that trans person
2-women and men play sports together all the time without outrage (co-Ed sports, mixed doubles..)
3-injuries in sports will happen all the time (have you ever been to a HS football game?)
That being said, should trans compete in women boxing or MMA? Probably not.
No, the issue is not the assumption "that women can't handle one random trans person in a volleyball match." The issue is about MALE trans-identified persons in girls' and women's sports.
The particular issue in this case is about HS girls forced to forfeit fairness, give up their own safety, and expose themselves to unreasonable risk of life-altering injury in order to placate a male HS student. This is all about girls being made to suck it up and suffer so that a male student gets his way and doesn't ever have to hear the word "no."
Yes, injuries in sports "happen all the time." But the adults in charge of sports including youth sports have a duty to devise rules and regulations that mitigate the risks athletes face. Sports policy makers are supposed to do make sure that athletes of both sexes and all ages are not exposed to needless or unreasonable risk of injury.
As for football: greater awareness of the risks, consequences and causes of head, neck and spine injuries in football players and other athletes has led to major changes in HS, college and professional football in recent years.
Understanding of the myriad anatomical features which put girls and women at extra, extremely high risk of concussion, TBI, neck and upper spine injuries, ACL injuries etc has also changed how girls and women train for and play a number of sports too.
Safeguarding the physical wellbeing of children, adolescents, young adults and full-grown adults who engage in organized sports is the number one job of the officials who make the rules and of the school administrators who oversee scholastic sports.
Haven't you ever seen " Meet the Parents"? When Focker spikes the ball and breaks his fiancé's sister's nose playing water volleyball. I just thought after that they wouldn't let men play volleyball with women anymore.
So you hire a moving service to load your stuff up and make the move, when those movers show up there stands three girls nobody over 150 pounds. You going to be cool with this? Yep, all of them identify as a male.