Posted on 03/20/2023 9:18:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
JUNCTION, VT – The Mid Vermont Christian School has been banned from competing in future sports tournaments after their team purposely forfeited a game in the girl’s state basketball playoffs in February due to the fact that the opposing team had a male-to-female transgender student on their roster.
The Principals’ Association (VPA) ruled on Monday that Mid Vermont violated the organization’s policies on race, gender and disability awareness – as well as state law – and as a result the school’s teams are no longer allowed to participate in future VPA-sanctioned tournaments in any sport whatsoever.
“The VPA again reiterates its ongoing support of transgender student-athletes as not only a part of building an inclusive community for each student to grow and thrive, but also as a clear expectation by Vermont state law(s) in the Agency of Education Best Practices, and in VPA Policy regarding transgender student athletes,” the VPA said.
In February, the girl’s basketball team of Mid Vermont Christian School refused to participate in a tournament game against Long Trail Mountain, with the stated reason – as per Head of School Vicky Fogg – being that a transgender athlete being on the competing team gave them an unfair advantage, as well as providing a safety risk for the biological females competing against him.
“We withdrew from the tournament because we believe playing against an opponent with a biological male jeopardizes the fairness of the game and the safety of our players,” Fogg said. “Allowing biological males to participate in women’s sports sets a bad precedent for the future of women’s sports in general.”
However, the Vermont Agency of Education’s (VAE) best practices law disallows student athletes to be discriminated against based on their gender identity; any instance where this law is disputed must be arbitrated individually, according to the state.
“Transgender and gender nonconforming students are to be provided the same opportunities to participate in physical education as are all other students,” the VAE says. “Generally, students should be permitted to participate in physical education and sports in accordance with the student’s gender identity. Participation in competitive athletic activities and sports will be resolved on a case-by-case basis.”
The VAE also allows transgender students to use the bathroom and locker room that corresponds with their chosen gender identity.
It is currently unknown how the Mid Vermont Christian School has reacted to their sports fan, or if they have plans to appeal the decision.
Proud of them. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, but lose his soul? I think I read that somewhere.
Every Christian athlete in the state should consider whether they should continue to play high school sports.
Because you don’t want your daughters either dangerously injured by a man or you don’t want them to have to watch a naked adolescent male walk around with an erection while your daughters are in the locker room in various stages of undress, we are going to punish the entire team of Christian athletes.
They should form their own league......
That school should team with other schools that still have standards to form their own group. Any “woke” collection of clowns, idiots, and sickies should be avoided for both physical and mental health reasons.
once the teams stop playing agains transgenders this will end quickley. the only reason this exists is to provides males an ego trip by winning games. they are all pathetic.
yes, thats so the whole team wii put pressure on the member to conform to woke perversion so they can play.
Good for them.
Christians need to start drawing line in the sand.
We were warned about persecution.....this is part of it.
It’s past time for sane schools to form their own sports leagues.
Girls (XX) participate in one division. Boys (XY) participate in another.
A student can self-identify any way he/she/it wishes. It’s a free country. But either you’ve got the right chromosomes or you don’t.
This is just the beginning.......................
Faith first. Eliminate all but intramural sports, if necessary. Remember, every one save Noah and his family were decidedly unfaithful to God. Just because the “majority” practice a thing does not make that “thing” right.
I wouldn’t trust the media to let us know if other schools drop out because it doesn’t fit the liberal agenda and they damned sure don’t want stuff like that advertised.
“– and as a result the school’s teams are no longer allowed to participate in future VPA-sanctioned tournaments in any sport whatsoever.”
The communists go scorched earth in an attempt to squash any further dissent.
We’ll see what happens, maybe their peers beat them up for ruining it for everyone, and opposition to tyranny dies with a whimper.
Same strategy they are trying with the J6 people.
I think this shows there will be consequences for refusing to play against these so-called male transgender people.
Some people say girls should just refuse to play against teams that have the transgender athletes.
Here we see that if girls do refuse there will be sanctions imposed against them.
I think the girls took a courageous stand but just pointing out there are consequences and they have to be ready to deal with the consequences.
I agree with the idea of just pulling out of the sports competition and like-minded Christian or values driven schools can form their own league and make their own rules.
Oh yeah......we’re now at the point where the teachings of The Holy Bible will be condemned as homophobic, transphobic and every other phobic you can name.
IIRC a few years ago some lunatic lesbian was pushing for all church sermons to be reviewed by the federal government or some such.......it’s coming.
Isn’t it interesting that only explicitly Christian organizations will stand up for girls?
“Some people say girls should just refuse to play against teams that have the transgender athletes”
I’ve been saying that since the DUDE at U Penn was allowed to swim AREAL female athletes.
That is the way to stop it in its tracks......DO NOT PLAY THEIR GAME.
Instead of forfeiting, they should have fielded an all-males-in-wigs team.
Then listen for the leftists to b*tch and moan.
That seems to be the only way to counter the madness which has taken over.
is the VPA government organization or a private association?
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