Wait, men in women's sports? How crazy is that. It sure
wouldn't happen the other way around now would it. Derp.
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.”
what an absolute disgrace this country has become
Once again trans policy ruins an athletic contest for females. When will we wake up to the absurdity, and when will women simply refuse to be participants in these farces?
The solution here to these low-talent males masquerading as females in women’s sports is to:
1. Send all the women on the all-women’s team to the women’s JV team.
2. Have all the members of the school’s men’s team identify as women.
3. Play the game and be certain to the fake woman on the woman’s team spends the game looking at the rafters first above the court and then the drop ceiling in the medical room.
Then let the teams normalize. There will be a lot fewer tie-me-wallaby types playing in women’s sports after a few such games.
What a bunch of sissies, common girls “man up”
Sounds fair.
Idiots
The MIAA should be fired, disbanded and fined for their role in the injury of three females.
Messing around, instead of challenging, the “Gender” folks is just extending the madness.
STOP USING THE WORD. “GENDER!”
THE CORRECT WORD IS SEX. THERE ARE TWO SEXES, MALE AND FEMALE.
Males have no business being on the same court, field,track or pool competing against females. PERIOD
Definitely wasn’t girls vs girls. Leftists lie, chromosomes dont.
The girls are playing again in 4 days. No one is injured.
They played possum successfully. (Soccer “injuries”)
Coach keeps the job by pretending to have too few to continue.
This ludicrous farce never ends because the female competitors -- and their parents -- are feckless morons.
Someone must get sued for this crap
Plant some small Gal trained in Martial Arts then go Bruce Lee on the pansies!
We are a PATHETIC, CORRUPT BANANA REPUBLIC!! Totally DISGUSTING!
I know it says trans, but the article is confusing since it points out the MIAA regulation.
There was a story posted here around 4 or so months ago.
A girl got hurt by a guy playing field hockey.
He wasn’t trans, just a guy on the team.
Apparently in Mass, if there is only a sport with one sex team, both sexes can play.
Since there’s no thing in the US as boys field hockey, the guy can just play girls field hockey.
That being said, I have never heard of a school with no boys basketball team.
Just weird since it says he has facial hair.
Maybe it’s a high level troll. I don’t understand society anymore.
A kicker isn’t a football player.
I can’t even imagine how those girls feel - they were assaulted in their school where they are supposed to be protected.
A MAN is undressing in their bathrooms, victoriously swinging his teenage erection while stealing their glory and scholarships and viciously assaulting them while he knows everyone will only defend him and HE will be the victim - everything those girls have worked for is for absolutely nothing.
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