Happy End of Democracy Day

[astonmartin708]

1) There are many poor female athletes who rely on athletics as a path to a college degree. Shame on you for attempting to turn back the strides females have made in athletics. Title9 be damned apparently

2) A below average male collegiate swimmer is an elite female college swimmer. Times are times in swimming. Pretty easy to compare.

Females competing in soccer against males from the age of 14-15 and up are certainly at a significantly higher risk of serious bodily injury. The differences in size, speed, strength are immense. Other contact sports would be the same.

Paths to college shouldn’t rely on title 9, at all. It’s your political party complaining about merit. College is about academics. I would personally get rid of title 9 and moreover athletic scholarships in general at non-profit institutions, especially in the age of NIL. There’s no reason to waste ladies time having to play sports, attend practices, travel and miss classes just so they can go to school. Just give them an academic scholarship and let them go to school. Those who want to play a sport should be able to, but it shouldn’t be the only condition available to them for an education.

You said women were at risk of getting hurt. You can’t get hurt by a swimmer in another lane. Most Olympic collegiate sports for women are non contact. Even the contact sports could see smaller males who couldn’t compete with the Lebron James or Travis Kelce’s of the world play. Why are short Asian men not typically able to play collegiate sports ? They couldn’t play the highest caliber men, but they might compete against high caliber women.

Females competing with SOME males in a few sports are at risk of injury. Many males are not much bigger than females….

Did you know that the TU women’s team under Mossman use to recruit smaller male students who had played in high school for the team to scrimmage against? No one cared.

 

[lawpoke87]

Paths to college shouldn’t rely on title 9, at all. It’s your political party complaining about merit. College is about academics. I would personally get rid of title 9 and moreover athletic scholarships in general at non-profit institutions, especially in the age of NIL. There’s no reason to waste ladies time having to play sports, attend practices, travel and miss classes just so they can go to school. Just give them an academic scholarship and let them go to school. Those who want to play a sport should be able to, but it shouldn’t be the only condition available to them for an education.

You said women were at risk of getting hurt. You can’t get hurt by a swimmer in another lane. Most Olympic collegiate sports for women are non contact. Even the contact sports could see smaller males who couldn’t compete with the Lebron James or Travis Kelce’s of the world play. Why are short Asian men not typically able to play collegiate sports ? They couldn’t play the highest caliber men, but they might compete against high caliber women.

Females competing with SOME males in a few sports are at risk of injury. Many males are not much bigger than females….

Did you know that the TU women’s team under Mossman use to recruit smaller male students who had played in high school for the team to scrimmage against? No one cared.

I never said female swimmers were at a greater risk of being injured competing against male athletes. Quit misstating my remarks.

I did say a low level male collegiate swimmer is an elite female swimmer. This is not subjective. Times are times.

I also stated high level female soccer players after a certain age are at a much higher risk for serious injury competing against high level male players due to disadvantages in size, speed, strength, physicality, etc… Not much debating this either for anyone who has a ounce of knowledge about the sport.

Most of us simply want some restrictions put in place. We just had a male collegiate athlete who took some hormones and in 18 months was allowed to compete as a female with predictable results. More troublesome was the number of people who supported such an action and result. If this precedent is followed and expanded, women sports would be in serious jeopardy.