Middle schoolers who protested trans athlete in girls shotput competition banned from next competition. lawsuit filed

In the first place, these kids are being used as proxies by their parents.

The next move by their parents should be to organize invitational-only competitions so that their children can compete on terms that the parents think are fair.

If they're going to compete in some interscholastic sports league, then abide by its rules.

Otherwise, make your own league, and make your own rules.

Athletes don’t get to decide who’s eligible and what the girls did was a personal attack on the transgender girl. Allowing transgender athletes to compete is a complicated issue and not one to be resolved by middle schoolers.

I think you're missing the part where the Constitution doesn't outline a vision on middle school sports.

Or are you under the impression that Thomas Jefferson has a section on 4 square and dodgeball written in there?

lol its not complicated at all... if you were born with a penis you compete against others in the same category...

Last weekend my daughters were in a track meet that was cold and windy and rainy with lots of delays. Lots of girls scratched their events, with coaches' knowledge, to head home and do other stuff.

In the case competing against the trans person, it's in the rules that if they step over the line, it's a scratch. They scratched. Since when can they be punished by some authority because they don't like the assumed reason they scratched?

As I understand it, the trans person was allowed to compete. They were not excluded. Now not only do they have to be included, but the other girls are forced to compete against them with the correct attitude.

I think the girls should have thrown. Don't let this one person ruin the meet for you. But now this one person ruins the meet for them and the thought police come down on them.

If you think it's the trans athletes fault that these kids got in trouble then I reckon you already hated trans people.

As another poster mentioned, it's not up to the middle schoolers to decide who is allowed to compete. Whether you support trans athletes or not, your inability to separate that feeling with the fact that the athletes don't get to decide the rules is immature.

It's likely people on this board would be rooting against the protesting athletes if, instead of protesting a trans athlete, they protested some kid wearing a m*ga hat.

For clarity, I'm voting blue up and down my ballot in November. Punishing those athletes for protesting is utter nonsense. And their "protest" was simply them not throwing. They walked into the ring and quietly, peacefully walked out. How is it now the right of one athlete becomes larger than the rights of these 5 girls? This is twisted. Nobody is preventing trans athletes from competing in sport. They have every opportunity to do so in the boy/male division. Male athletes identifying a female have a significant physical advantage. And if you are going to be willfully ignorant to this fact then whatever you offer as a counter-argument carries zero weight.

I can get rugby players or even volleyball or something, but how is a middle school girl affected by competing in the shot put against anyone else. I coached middle school track. Boys and girls used the same implements and were measured the same, this literally had no impact on anything. In half the races, I'd prefer boy/girls of similar ability be seeded together vs 65 second girls 400 runners running against 2 min girls instead of 65 min boys, and then they are competing against each other, the shot put is an individual event where you see your distance compared to yourself.

The only reason these kids even knew was because they had dumb ass parents trying to push some political agenda.

Liberals want the truth exposers to be the outcasts. They'll give them labels and shame them to perpetuate their agenda and give it legitimacy in the eyes of easily manipulated sheep. For the left, they even start believing their own lies in perpetuity because they deceive and lie like clockwork.

Sorry, but the school district has the right to suspend an athlete. If there’s a rule, it has to be enforceable. It would be a mess, if athletes get to decide which rules apply to them.

When it comes to sports participation polices, school districts are almost subject to those of the state.

This isn't a "left " issue. This is a far extreme left talking point. We on the left do not support this. So stop painting the left with this idiotic brush. We pretty much agree that men identifying as women need to compete in mens divisions.

Which liberals? The dopy liberals operating on the far left? yes. Anybody who operates on either extreme is a nut. Most of us operate somewhere in between those extremes. Like, I'm a Dem who is opposed to this athlete being allowed to participate against biological girls, just like I'm a dem who believes we should be doing way more at the border.

This isn't a "liberal" agenda. An overwhelming percentage of liberals don't want this. Try again

You are part of the problem. Why are you "voting blue up and down"? Is that your team? No matter what sort of idiocy they inflict on this country, you're still voting blue. Idiot.