
Originally Posted by
Eryn
What about a short boy's desire to play basketball? He has just as much right to participate in an athletic program as any student yet he would be excluded from the boys' basketball team because his genetics rendered him short and excluded from the girls' team because his genetics include a Y chromosome. Girls, OTOH, have the right to participate in boys' athletic teams. This is an obvious inequity.
With barriers having been knocked down for females perhaps it is time to knock them down for males as well. We should end gender segregation of athletic teams and encourage everyone to participate by instituting non-gendered teams for various physical ability levels.