If betting on high school sports were legal, then it would make sense to bet on the male competing on the girls’ side of the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 2 state championship meet next weekend....
This never happens! And when this happens, it's so rare! And why do you care about fairness anyway when we have gun violence and the orange man ins't in jail?
She's winning events with a height of 5'1" (1.54m), which is her PB. She also has a best in the 1500 in 5:21.76 (race are being won by other girls in 5:07).
Actually, looking at the party standings in the New Hampshire legislature and executive, Republicans control everything. See link. I suppose NH Republicans are just a lot more liberal than in most of the country, otherwise they would have acted on this. (Although I guarantee they'd get the vast majority of the public's support to stop this if they actually wanted to.)
Actually, looking at the party standings in the New Hampshire legislature and executive, Republicans control everything. See link. I suppose NH Republicans are just a lot more liberal than in most of the country, otherwise they would have acted on this. (Although I guarantee they'd get the vast majority of the public's support to stop this if they actually wanted to.)
The current policy in New Hampshire that allows HS students to choose which category of school sports to compete in based on gender identity claims rather than on their sex wasn't voted in by the state legislature after open public debate. Rather, the policy was put in place behind closed doors on the quiet - indeed, some would say in stealth - by the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association in response to lobbying by trans activists, "LGBTQ" organizations and supposed human rights groups.
The lobby groups advised the NHIAA that new ways of interpreting Title IX favored by the Obama adminstration and "progressive" groups, and New Hampshire's own human rights laws, meant education authorities were now legally required to allow males who claim to have opposite-sex gender identities to compete in girls' and women's school sports and to use facilities such as female locker rooms.
AFAICT, the broad public in New Hampshire wasn't notified beforehand that the NHIAA was planning on making this momentous change a decade ago, and the main group who'd be most negatively affected - girls and women (the female kind) - never got a chance to weigh in. Most people only found out about this policy change long after it had been put in place.
But at any rate, several bills dealing with this issue are currently under consideration in both the NH House and Senate. From NH news outlet Seacoast Online, February 2, 2024:
House Bill 1205, titled the “fairness in women’s sports act,” would require that all interscholastic or intercollegiate sports teams be designated either “male,” “female,” or “coed,” and states that those that are designated for “females,” “women,” or “girls” would not be open to those whose biological sex at birth is male.
Senate Bill 375 would block students of the “male sex” from female sports teams, female bathrooms, and female locker rooms, defining sex as “the biological state of being female or male, based on an individual’s nonambiguous sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous hormone profile at birth.”
[These bills join] other bills seeking to change the laws around gender identity in public spaces. The House will vote again Thursday on House Bill 396, which would amend the state’s anti-discrimination laws to allow public facilities such as schools to enforce separation of bathrooms and locker rooms based on biological sex.
Supporters say that the efforts are driven by safety concerns.
“Our biological females in New Hampshire need protection and safety in sports,” said Rep. Louise Andrus, a Salisbury Republican and the sponsor of the bill.
Supporters of the school sports bill say they are not trying to target trans students but are instead looking for fairness. In the crammed committee room [where the House Education Committee held hearings] Monday, a string of supporters raised concerns that students who were born biologically male will dominate female sports competitions with higher testosterone, stronger muscles, and different body structures.
“I just want to say: I’m not anti trans, and I don’t like any kind of prejudice against anyone,” said Betty Gay, a former Republican lawmaker from Salem. “But the reason I’m here supporting this bill is that the best male athletes will always be the best women athletes. And it’s only fair to keep level playing field.”
Stephen Scaer, of Nashua, also said his support of the bill was based in physiology.
“The problem is that bodies compete, not gender identities,” he said. “Our current policies right now are teaching young women that they’re second-class citizens whose needs are subordinate to male needs and desires.”
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We have the last week of Feb off and New Englands are March 2nd. Nike Indoors are the next weekend.
The event where this male athlete will be competing for a female state title is the NHIAA high school varsity Indoor Track Championships (Division I and II) - to be held on Sunday, February 11, 2024 at Plymouth State University in Holderness.
Those two male jocks who run the NHIAA couldn't high jump over a bar stool to grab another beer. The only thing they worry about is keeping their cushy non-profit jobs. They have, however, made a gross mis-calculation about which side has more resources to sue them out of existence.
We have the last week of Feb off and New Englands are March 2nd. Nike Indoors are the next weekend.
The event where this male athlete will be competing for a female state title is the NHIAA high school varsity Indoor Track Championships (Division I and II) - to be held on Sunday, February 11, 2024 at Plymouth State University in Holderness.