Posted on 02/20/2024 3:54:26 PM PST by Twotone
A Massachusetts charter school ended a girls’ varsity basketball game at halftime on February 8 after multiple players were injured by a trans-identified male on the opposing team.
The coach of the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell Girls’ Basketball Team made the decision to end the game against KIPP Academy "after watching a third player injured in the game," a press release from the school states.
"The bench was already depleted going into the game with the 12-player roster having four players unable to play. When the coach saw three more girls go down in the first half leaving him with five players, he made the call to end to end the game early."
The school wrote in the press release that Charter School playoffs were approaching, "and he needed a healthy and robust bench in four days."
"Once the third was injured, the remaining five expressed concern to him about continuing to play. The players feared getting injured and not being able to compete in the playoffs."
The school wrote that it "supports this decision and reiterates its values of both inclusivity and safety for all students."
"We take the standards set by the MIAA and our Board of Trustees seriously and strive to uphold them on and off the court. We also follow the guidance from the MIAA and state laws regarding equity and access for all student-athletes."
One video of the game showed the biological male player, standing taller than the female players, ripping the ball out of a female Collegiate Charter School of Lowell player’s hands. She was seen clutching her back while she laid on the ground, grimacing in pain as team members surrounded her.
According to the ItemLive, KIPP led at halftime 31-14. The trans-identified male player is reportedly over 6 feet tall, and has facial hair.
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athlete Association (MIAA) states in its handbook that "If a school offers a single team in a particular sport, it may not restrict eligibility based on gender unless such a restriction is necessary to ensure that the school’s gendered designation of athletic opportunities complies with Title IX."
"A student shall not be excluded from participation on a gender-specific sports team that is consistent with the student’s bona fide gender identity," the handbook adds.
Collegiate Charter School of Lowell Athletic Director Kyle Pelczar told ItemLive that he and Coach Kevin Ortins knew ahead of time that the trans-identified male played on the team, as they have played that school before this season. The trans-identified male has been on the girls roster since the start of the season.
“No, and coach knew going into the game, already, because we had them at home the first game of the year and nothing happened then, so he knew going into the game,” Pelczar said.
The previous game, which took place on December 12, resulted in KIPP winning 36-29 against Collegiate Charter School.
“So, he felt that his girls were getting injured, basically, all game,” Pelczar said. “He has a playoff game on Monday, so he didn’t want to have any more of his girls go down.”
and the OTHERSIDE wasn’t DQ’d... because???
‘tis unfortunate that it’s the women’s liberation movement that demanded women are equal to men in every way so these women need to just suck it up when competing with “other women”, no matter IF they are automatic or stick. real change will only happen when the current generation of women confront the past generation and say to them “WHAT THE F—k WERE YOU THINKING?
For all these sporting events the actual girls should just walk away.
End this garbage.
Also, laws need to be introduce where a student and its parents can be SUED FOR DAMAGES if they injury an actual girl during a sporting event.
One freak doing volleyball caused a concussion on the other team. Stealing scholarships, records, etc.
Absolute insanity but they do the work of their father, Satan, who is a liar, so makes sense they behave accordingly.
Real girls teams should decline to play if the other team has a male on it. Girls in individual competition, ( track, cycling, etc) should refuse to participate if male are included. It won’t be long that things will change when there is no competition ... the fans will disappear. Can you imagine a state championship with jus one or two competitors.
Seriously. She kicked the ball once in a game, and was awarded "SEC Special Teams Player of the Week", which is apparently now a participation trophy.
On topic, at some point, parents and female athletes themselves are going to have to assert themselves. Men dressing up as women are destroying women's sports.
Time to teach those girls some creative fouls. Guy wants to masquerade as a chick cause he can’t make it on the boys team. Kick “her” in the balls.
Time to teach those girls some creative fouls. Guy wants to masquerade as a chick cause he can’t make it on the boys team. Kick “her” in the balls.
I can’t see How these confused souls keep breathing with so much confusion and Hate.
They Can’t reason 2+2=4 ,,, and it’s not feasible to talk of important matters.
The movie IDIOCRACY is Prophetic.
Your Absolutely Correct.
They asked for it
I remember when I thought Idiocracy was unrealistic.
It’s going to actually be worse.
Ya’all really need to do a search before posting. This has got to be at least the fourth time this has been posted here on FR, maybe more.
I tried to tell em...stay away from the chick with the jockstrap....
This is disgusting. Where are this boy’s parents? Why are they allowing him to play on girls teams? This makes no sense. And, now, a young girl has been injured.
Pathetic and wrong. There is no other way to characterize it.
“...real change will only happen”...
...when there’s a fatality...
What are you snorting?
such bs.
i grew up in that area playing football(outside linebacker), lacrosse(midfield), and track(300 and shotput). in my senior year, i was 6’1” @ 195 lbs.
if i played on the girls lacrosse team, i’d wipe out their entire team in the first quarter. unintentionally. bumping into a girl while running would topple her easily. if we had more of a collision, which is easy when going for the ball, the girl would lose that match up every time.
there were no girls in my school, which had a very well known athletic program, that would’ve offered any serious competition.
i was going to say the same thing.
obviously, he’s not very athletic and/or doesn’t know football.
In Scotland and Ireland they have a similar game to field hockey played Scotland it’s called shinty, in Ireland it’s hurling... or maybe those are closer to lacrosse. Stick and ball games played by men.
I really don’t know how field hockey in America became a woman’s game exclusively and up north east it’s not exclusively a woman’s game but I had no idea they had mixed benches.
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