HS Male field hockey player knocks out teeth of female player

Is anyone surprised?

Hmmm... What is the battle cry of the pro-trans idiots? "We don't care about competing or winning, we just want to be with our friends and enjoy participating". Yeah Right!

I will say this, if my daughter, girlfriend, sister, etc... got her teeth knocked out by this freak-show DUDE, there would've been a major beat down comin' HIS way.

Maybe trans panic has reduced the how common this policy is, but I've always thought it was fairly commonplace that states said if a hs offers a sport for one gender but not the other, anyone can play on that team. Lets the occasional girl play football but also lets boys, mostly from other countries where boys playing is common, play field hockey

This is an article from 2018.

According to the most recent participation rates on the MIAA website, this year there are 36 boys playing and 7,914 girls playing field hockey. Since 2000, the participation rate for boys has ranged from a low of 14 to a high of 49.

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You are an internet blowhard. Chance you have a girlfriend or daughter is practically non existent and if you did, they’d probably be the only ones you ‘beat down.’

Nothing about this has anything to do with trans. Cut your fake internet tough guy schtick.

and men with men

Funny enough in most states you are required to wear a face mask in field hockey at the high school level. Similar to lacrosse. Anyone could have done this, just so happens it was someone who is biologically a male.

I'm a female and I got teeth knocked out during PRACTICE while playing field hockey, as a ball hit my stick, bounced up and into my mouth.

I've also split my eyebrow open from opposite teams waving their sticks in the air as the other team and I went after the ball at the same time.

Our only facial protection at the time was mouth guards (around 2000). The year after I graduated, they instituted eye goggles. Other than shin guards, we did not have any protection.

We were also told to NOT have any earrings on while playing in the off-chance a ball would hit us in the ear and the earring stud jams into your jugular and you could bleed to death (we were told this had happened in order to justify the rule, but who knows).

Wild balls/hits happen all the time. Many players can whip their sticks to generate the power to slam the ball down the field (I could do 50 yd free hits that the other team couldn't stop by the time I was a senior).

In short: I don't think this one incident of a male being the hitter of a ball that injured a female can justify the reversal of the MA law. There are too many other injuries from wild balls/hits that is just the nature of the sport.

Field hockey is played by men throughout much of the world and is an Olympic sport. Given that intentional contact is disallowed, the size of the field, and positional tactics, time duration etc, it's much closer to soccer than ice hockey.

Our daughter played, she got hit by the stick way more often then by the ball. In other words what happened was an uncommon accident. The fact that it was shot by a male probably doesn't matter, the ball is very hard, heavy and a bit larger than a baseball, and a female player can easily knock out another players teeth with either stick or ball. They do wear teeth guards. Injuries seem to happen more often in the lower skilled leagues.

Should boys play on girls teams, sure why not. Male teens or adults? Not sure, but there should at least be full acceptance by female players/coaches.