SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE Editorial: Participation is the objective of federal Title IX and other rules that have opened innumerable opportunities for girls and women in academics and sports…
In 1975, the Commonwealth Court rejected a Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association rule that had barred girls from practicing or competing against boys. Then, such competition often was the only means for girls to even attempt to compete in interscholastic sports, and the state’s equal rights law, also passed in 1972, forbade gender-based discrimination.
Now, many boys play on girls’ high school teams if the same sport is not offered to boys, which is a bad idea on several scores. First, it diminishes participation by girls, contradicting the fundamental purpose of Title IX. And it’s dangerous.
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I completely disagree. If we are going to fight to allow girls to play in boys’ sports in school because there is not a girls team, the same should be available for boys.
Cheerleading is considered a “girls'” sport, yet there are some physical things that a girl, no matter how strong, just is not physically capable of doing that can be done when a squad is co-ed. It’s done in colleges, it might as well start younger so kids can grow into it. Especially if they have the chance of getting college scholarships.