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Originally Posted by Vox
It's happened in professional sports, so sure, could happen. But there is also another side. My daughter for example, is probably not going to be comfortable playing on a team with a boy. She is not the most athletic girl, and she wants to play with girls because she has a chance. Put a boy in the mix, and it can totally change the dynamic.
It's not narrow minded to have concerns. It's narrow minded to reject them out right. I'm raising my concerns which are as valid as yours.
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I'm usually right there in the crusty conservative dude crowd, but this one I get - now.
My kid had his birthday. He had friends over from school and hockey and all that. And when I looked at the list of kids he made I saw a girls name and said oh who's that, is she from school? My kid said yes but [name] is a boy. I'm thinking weird boys name but whatever. Turns out [name] is a girl who self identifies as a boy. To my kid and his friends, he's a boy. A quiet, kinda odd boy, but they don't care. I dont pretend to understand any of it, but that experience made this not hypothetical for me. I can see not a looney set of rules but a kid who was just hanging with his friends.
If [name] is any example, I can guarantee your daughter will never feel like she is on a team with a boy. She might feel like there is a weird kid on her team, and maybe even know the story and find the whole thing awkward. But it will not be like it seems in your head where it's a dude walking into the girls changeroom. And from what I saw (only a couple of hours with pre-teens I admit) chances are our kids will handle this better than we do if we clear the way with rules like these.