Posted on 10/28/2017 1:40:49 PM PDT by bgill
Emily Nash, an 8th grader from Massachusetts, won a golf tournament for teen boys but was denied the trophy because she is a girl. She was entered into the D3 Central Boys Golf Tournament as part of her school's (Lunenberg High School) team and shot a 75 using the same tees as the boys. She captured the top spot by 4 strokes but her score was only counted towards her team's score, not as an individual score.
Richard Pearson, Assistant Executive Director of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Associations attempted to explain the matter, "We have girls play in the spring and boys play in the fall. There are a lot of instances where on the girls side, there may not be enough players to field a team in the spring. In that case, the girls can compete individually. To afford them the chance to be a part of a team, we also allow them to play with the boys teams in the fall, where their score can only count toward the team total."
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If only she'd said she identifies as a boy.
The explanation seems reasonable enough.
It is a non-event, made into something by leftwing media.
Give her the trophy and strictly segregate boys and girls in sports competitions in the future. Same sex classrooms is good too.
No he explained pretty well why she couldn’t get the trophy.
How about the BOYS play on the girls’ team too every year?
Your comment belongs on kos.
Which is shocking for you :)
Well, there is a little more to this.
She played because she was part of a team. That’s kind of normal around here.
She did not win the championship because it was the State Boy’s Tournament. The Girls tournament is in the spring.
If her team had not qualified she would not have been able to play as an individual.
Everyone knows she shot the best in the tournament. I believe the boy’s champion gave her the trophy.
This is not really a big deal. She has her chance to win in the spring.
Her team did not do well.
If the school is too small to sport a full team boys who did not play in the fall could probably fill in.
We are talking about tiny high schools. I had more kids in my gym class than these kids have in their graduating class.
she knew it was the boys time, therefore she broke the rules, and she should not get the trophy.
I had to look to see who posted what you said as I thought a liberal had come on here, posting crap.
Well, this is in the news so the liberals can express their outrage and be shocked, just shocked, that somehow a girl is denied “equal” rights. That’s all this is.
, therefore she broke the rules
If it’s a boy’s event, why did they even let girls participate?
Now as to her ability to play by exactly the same rules and win, good for her.
This isn't even sexism it's pure assholery.
p.s. how'd you like my run-on sentence, grammar Nazis?
:)
She should not have been allowed to play in a Boys Tournament.
The tournament staff blew it by allowing her to play.
It will end up being one of the best things that happened to her golf career. She got noticed. Likely scholarship offers to follow.
I accept his explanation. Suggest that the school make an adjustment so that ANYONE who competes, be it boy or girl, is eligible for a trophy if they out score their opponents. She earned the trophy singly which, IMO would put her at the top when competing as an Individual.
There are two logical choices:If you have no sex segregation, and no boys' teams and girls’ teams, boys will dominate most or all teams, with only the occasional exceptional girl participant.
- have girls’ teams and boys teams, and sex segregation. Or,
- have no segregation of the sexes, and untrammeled “survival of the fittest” competition for slots.
If you do have sex segregation, why then, have sex segregation. Whether or not it gores you favorite ox in a particular case. Sex segregation enables many girls to participate, but it also - in the exceptional case - prevents a girl from participating in what she would prefer to have the opportunity to do.
Classic case is a girl who is able to star at Little League baseball. Wonderful, for her. But a disappointment for the boy who sits instead of starting if she participates - and a humiliation for every boy who tries to make the team and fails. Not just the one boy otherwise would actually have had that slot.
Evidently Emily Nash wasn’t told ahead of time that she wasn’t eligible for the individual prize but she is the not the one making a big deal out of it.
"I wasn't aware until after my round that if I won, I wouldn't be able to get the title or the trophy," Nash told the Telegram in Worcester, Mass. "So I was definitely disappointed, but I understand that there are rules in place. I don't think people expected for this to happen, so they didn't really know how to react to it. None of us are mad at the MIAA or anything like that, but I was definitely a little bit disappointed."
But IMO if she was good enough to play on the boy’s team and contribute to their team score while playing from the same tees as the boys, and competing fair and square and besting them all, I say she should get the trophy.
Did they all hit from the same tees?
Whereas back a few months ago a boy identified himself as female, ran in an all girl track meet and won, got trophy.
Read the story.
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