Posted on 10/06/2022 7:36:11 PM PDT by 11th_VA
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. (KABC) -- The southern section of the California Interscholastic Federation voted Thursday to make flag football an official girls' high school sport.
The approval, at a CIF meeting in Long Beach, was passed by a vote of 61 in favor and 26 against, with two abstentions.
Following the approval, the state federation - which governs interscholastic sports in California - is expected to take it up next month with a goal of making it an official sport in the nation's most populous state for the 2023-24 school year.
The number of girls playing flag football in U.S. high schools doubled to 11,000 in the decade leading up to 2018-19, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations.
Flag football already is a sanctioned high school girls sport in states including Alabama and Nevada. And it was added as a collegiate sport by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, with colleges in Florida, Georgia, Kansas and elsewhere fielding teams...
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Just girls?
Good question.
Yeah. My first thought was will trannies be allowed?
I watched a few games of the Lingerie Football League.
The sport is irrelevant. It’s the locker room.
Just great. Another sport the boys dressed up like girls can take over.
Good!
The number of high schools in the US are 26,727. 11,000 girls play flag football. might be tough to get a team together.
The NFL has been marketing to women for a while now. It’s not that surprising daughters are becoming interested.
“girls playing flag football” sounds like the most boring sport around, worse than soccer.
Great to play, even if boring to watch! I'm a big advocate for girls playing sports.
(Ah, not martial arts. Women fighting each other is sick. Unless it involves bikinis and mud, that is.)
And I'd rather have them playing flag football than soccer - at least they'll gain some upper-body strength and coordination!
“ Hmmmm; might be worth a look”
Until Bubba decides he’s really Bobbi.
Frankly I’m surprised it wasn’t already
Florida has had state championships for years for the girls but I guess progressives in California are misogynists LOL
Making girls into men.
Yeah. My first thought was will trannies be allowed?
= = =
The have two flags.
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