Boys play on girls field hockey team

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by Chancie

In the last eight years, there have been several boys who've played field hockey at the public high school where I teach, including a female bodied young person who identifies as transgender and currently uses feminine pronouns. They have all worn the same skirt as the girls, but I think they wear heftier shorts underneath than the girls.

I think that it is pretty neat that they are in keeping with the uniform.

I am curious...has there been any issues in your school district around boys being on the team and either taking time away from the girls being able to play, or issues with where a school may complain about the boys being "stronger", "faster" or it being "unsafe" for the girls (as the one coach said in this article?).

[Martina]

God, i am not for any sport that causes that many concussions. And then to add physically superior guys. Just cringing for the worried mothers.

Well it is a sport guys don't have. So that is an argument for their participation. i would object if boys who didn't make the boy's basketball team took over the girls, for example.

i would also not like it if there were girls who wanted to play who couldn't because of the guys. Not the case here, clearly.

i guess i am not sure what i think.

[Chancie]

Originally Posted by SartorialButch

I think that it is pretty neat that they are in keeping with the uniform.

I am curious...has there been any issues in your school district around boys being on the team and either taking time away from the girls being able to play, or issues with where a school may complain about the boys being "stronger", "faster" or it being "unsafe" for the girls (as the one coach said in this article?).

Nope, but I went to a single sex public school and there were a lot of frustrated parents and teachers when the math teams and math classes were dominated by male students when the school went coed.