Co-ed sports benefits female athletes

**Zuberi** · 20th-September-2011

Article here. Excerpt:

'No boys allowed! Jimmy Cao, a 16-year-old senior, is not allowed to play on the Hillsborough High School girls field hockey team, even though there’s no team for boys. Letting boys play on girls teams could eliminate opportunities for female athletes, according to New Jersey’s governing body for high school athletics. Title IX, however, does permit girls to play on boys teams — including contact sports such as wrestling or hockey — if there’s no team for girls.

You'll find the rest on the link.

**Popadibs** · 20th-September-2011

oh, this is in Florida

**Dylan MacVillain** · 21st-September-2011

The link doesn't work.

In high school, there was a girl on our football (Am.) team for part of a season. She could't take it.

**Popadibs** · 21st-September-2011

Quote from Dylan MacVillain

The link doesn't work.

In high school, there was a girl on our football (Am.) team for part of a season. She could't take it.

They try to tell us women are equally good at sports and such when if that were true it would be obvious and there would be no need to convince us.

**The Possible Human** · 21st-September-2011

Title IX was supposed top level the field for girls in sports, the only thing it did was engender hatred and double standards. If a girl wants to play "male" sports, she is free to do so with the full backing of the courts and law. If boy wants to play, lets say Volleyball on a girls team when no boys team exists he is barred by the schools and the law.

Title IX destroyed hundreds of male golf programs and Lacross teams across the U.S. after it was implemented. How is that equality in sport?

**julie** · 21st-September-2011

Coed sports is awesome. It's fun and both men and women benefit.

I ran coed netball since I was 19 and had police and all others playing. It was lots of fun for big men as it was for little women and vice versa. You laugh as much as you compete and bond so wonderfully into team work.

I also made it happen in New Zealand and both sexes loved it and I enjoyed touch rugby which is much kinder than real rugby that men and women play alone.

Doing things together isn't as bad as the old world thought IMO.

PS- my family business is a sport indoor centre. The biggest in the southern hemisphere. You could say my family are just dumb athletes. The only people who don't hate us are all the intellects with ADHD lol. I soooo don;t fit in with most of you but some of you are good to me. I appreciate u accept me. lol.

**Celtic Druid** · 22nd-September-2011

I believe Title IX was always intended as a divisive political tool to ensure feminists had the same degree of overbearing influence on the sports field as they do within the classroom.

**Percy** · 22nd-September-2011

Clearly schools and universites should encourage girls to do those girl-sports that they are associated with by gender and hense far better at than boys. Warm-oil wrestling and foxy boxing come to mind.