It requires a lot of maturity to take a principled stand in a competition like he did. Good on him, and congratulations to the parents and church who taught him well.
I agree.
My boys wrestled in Wisconsin and there are more and more girls wrestling. I saw only one girl wrestler that was a real threat, the rest I’ve seen get handled, and it looks a lot like molestation.
As a father of a girl, I would never allow her to wrestle, even if she wanted to and was good. Why? Because I think it isn’t appropriate for maturing teenage girls to do that and it doesn’t train them for what God calls women to be.
What’s ridiculous is in Wisconsin there were two cases of boys trying to get on girls teams. One was trying to go out for gymnastics and the other one was trying to go out for volleyball. They were refused, the cases went up to the courts and years after they graduated, the ruling said that boys couldn’t be on girl teams. However, whenever a girl wants to wrestle or play football, these teams and coaches have to bend over backward to make it happen.
If girls want to wrestle, let them form their own, all girl teams. But even that would attract some strange people.
Now, having said all of that, I do respect the athleticism, discipline, and motivation that any person has to complete even one season of wrestling. I can respect girls who wrestle for their tenacity, but I still think it is wrong for them.
As a side note, I don’t think guys wrestling girls has any positive affect on the development of teenagers into men. Young boys can be stigmatized by being beat by a girl and beating a girl is really no real victory. Like others have posted on here, girls have a chance in the lower weights, but fail when it comes to brute strength. Physically, God didn’t make ‘em that way.