"She went to step up to compete for the grade four shot-put final, and right before she went to throw, a grandfather of a student said, 'Hey, this is supposed to be a girls' event, and why are you letting boys compete.' My daughter is cisgender, born female, uses she/her pronouns. She has a pixie haircut," said mom Heidi Star.
Star says the man then carried on to demand certification to prove that her daughter was born female.
"He stopped the entire event. He also pointed at another girl who also had short hair. He then piped in and said, 'Well, if she is not a boy, then she is obviously trans.'"
Star said the man's wife then started calling her "a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile."
This is what happens when you allow Americanism to invade your country.
they haven't even gone through puberty yet
The :frothingfash: exists to terrorize children, not actually discuss science.
At age 9 the girls are probably taller than the boys.
After refereeing children's sports and seeing the lack of coordination first-hand, there really shouldn't be gender in sports until like puberty.
Even at pre-teen and above, maybe they should separate kids by if they got a growth spurt yet or not. Team sports where the whole team just passes to the biggest/fastest kid doesn't help anyone develop skills.
Hitting puberty early is too huge of an advantage if you ever want to be a pro athlete.
as childrens sports are played for fun I don't think we need to worry too much about the integrity of the competition
I don't really care about integrity because kid's sports should be focussed on development and shouldn't be properly competitive until late teens IMO. It's more that if there's one clearly stronger/faster kid, then no one else really gets better because all the other kids learn to just pass to them.
I was that kid people passed to so I still play the sports I played as a kid. Hearing stories of other people having bad times in gym class, or being forced to play by their parents and having a bad time saddens me because it's a missed opportunity.
The problem is that youth sports can become scholarships or recruitment to prestigious colleges, or professional sports.
I am all for destroying these things and getting all money out of sports.
ah fair enough I think athletic scholarships are mainly an American thing and the kids that get into professional sports tend to be the kids that play in clubs as children. No one is getting into professional sports based on just their high school PE lessons