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In Vermont once again…. but with a different ending.
A Christian prep school in Vermont forfeited a playoff girls basketball game in the state championship tournament after discovering the opposing team had a transgender player on the roster.
The school rightly cited both fairness of the game and safety of their players as their reasons for forfeiting.
If this becomes widespread things will change more rapidly then most imagine. It will be interesting to see how sports media reports on this; and, even if the Usual Talking Heads don't specify why team X did not play team Y, the 1-0 score will be a tipoff. One thing I'm looking for is how some schools do battle with the NCAA. It costs money to bus / fly a team to city X to play school Y, and to fly a team someplace to get a forfeit – and getting that in-person forfeit is important because it shows the team from school Y was present and ready to play the scheduled game but due to “local conditions” refused to do so, which is radically different from “we learned you have a transgender player so we're not coming” – it will be interesting to see if schools go to the NCAA and request reimbursement for travel expenses. (That there is public record of a female volleyball player suffering debilitating injury due to being struck in the head by a ball delivered by a transgender player established, and emphasizes, the player safety aspect.)All this, of course, relies on the administrative hierarchy of the athletic department supporting it. You will pardon me if I elect to not hold my breath on that. It will also be interesting to see what happens to the next season's schedule; if school X is known to be Pure Woke and has transgender players on some teams, will school Y refuse to schedule games with them? Anon 2
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If this becomes widespread things will change more rapidly then most imagine. It will be interesting to see how sports media reports on this; and, even if the Usual Talking Heads don't specify why team X did not play team Y, the 1-0 score will be a tipoff. One thing I'm looking for is how some schools do battle with the NCAA. It costs money to bus / fly a team to city X to play school Y, and to fly a team someplace to get a forfeit – and getting that in-person forfeit is important because it shows the team from school Y was present and ready to play the scheduled game but due to “local conditions” refused to do so, which is radically different from “we learned you have a transgender player so we're not coming” – it will be interesting to see if schools go to the NCAA and request reimbursement for travel expenses. (That there is public record of a female volleyball player suffering debilitating injury due to being struck in the head by a ball delivered by a transgender player established, and emphasizes, the player safety aspect.)All this, of course, relies on the administrative hierarchy of the athletic department supporting it. You will pardon me if I elect to not hold my breath on that. It will also be interesting to see what happens to the next season's schedule; if school X is known to be Pure Woke and has transgender players on some teams, will school Y refuse to schedule games with them? Anon 2
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