Maine’s rules on girls’ sports a sad leap back in time

The recent dust mine between the Government Mills and President Trump on the issue of men who participated in women’s sports has presented the Mine in this important national issue. I felt that I would contribute to my experience and ideas.

I studied at the Turner’s Levites Area High School in the 1970s and participated in the Girls Track and Field at a time when many girls’ sports programs were available for boys. Fairly, neither the boys nor the girls’ track teams had proper resources, but we both did the best work, often on the mud dirt path and sometimes to the grass or whites to get into the high jump pit. Despite these limits, the girls team practiced very hard and we took the competition very seriously. In the 1973 state championship, I was very proud to be one of the four young women to take first position in my school relay.

When I went to Mine University in Orauno, I was excited to compete at the college level, but I was disappointed, I found out that there was no school -approved women’s track team but that a loose organized “club” game “was in work.” A enthusiastic member of the men’s team voluntarily voluntarily for coaching women, but we could only compete in some AAU meetings, while the men’s team had two salaried coaches and traveled all over the northeast to compete against other major colleges. I was sometimes saddened by my boyfriend, and a future husband, who was involved in the men’s team.

It has taken many years, but thankfully women’s sports have begun equality with men’s sports at both high school and collegiate levels in Mine. It is largely based on the implementation of the title IX, which violated violators threaten the loss of federal funds. It is also due to the increasing national acceptance of the principles of basic justice in the fields of access and competitiveness and the growing national acceptance of the principles of men and women. The virtue in sports is not just about personal satisfaction and self -esteem, but students are often used as springs boards in colleges and universities, or jobs in coaching, and networking reasons.

As a Mine woman, it is very sad for me that decades of progress ended by the Mine Principals Association’s Mine Title IX’s distorted interpretation and the non -scientific and distinguishing language of the Mine Human Rights Act, which allows men to fight against women in school sports. Such a policy title contradicts IX’s clear intent.

By allowing biological men to compete against women, not only does this policy hurt women’s athletics, but it also puts women with big and strong men to get injured in team sports. There are already events in the mine and the US around the United States

For this strange policy, the unprecedented silence of the so -called women’s lawyers groups is equally disturbing, which is not supported by the majority of the majority supported, and now it has been rejected by the NCAA nationally in college sports.

Although I appreciate the Government Mills’ commitment to comply with the “law” on this important issue, the law of the Mine needs to change along with the misguided interpretation of the federal law of the administration to protect both women’s sports and women.

Hopefully, either through judicial proceedings, politicians seek the courage to promote the will of the majority of people, or through a famous referendum, this discrimination will become another unfortunate feet note in the history of the policy.

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