Wed Sep 18, 2024 – 5:13 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Another school girls’ sports team opted to forfeit a game rather than put its members at risk facing an opposing team with a “transgender” member who is actually a boy, this time in Massachusetts.
The College Fix reported that the girls’ field hockey team at Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School is forgoing a planned match against Somerset-Berkely Regional High School, citing the latter team having a biologically male player.
Dighton-Rehoboth superintendent Bill Runey defended the choice to “place a higher value on safety than on victory,” even at the potential cost of “chances for a league championship and possibly playoff eligibility,” but expressed hope for their example making “other schools consider following suit to achieve safety and promote fair competition for female athletes.”
The danger is no hypothetical for this particular community; last year, a female Dighton-Rehoboth field hockey player was “severely injured” by a gender-confused boy on the opposing Swampscott High School team, but Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) assistant director Sherry Bryant insisted at the time the association’s “hands were tied because of lawsuits.”
“I told her, ‘You’re telling me, Title IX allows players of the opposite
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