A 6th grade girls team from Kentucky was set to go for the year-end championship tournament, but was told they were banned due to fears boys teams might ‘retaliate’ if they lost to the girls team.

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    This is how most sex segregated sports came about

    1. women beats men
    2. women banned
    3. segregated division created because of “biological differences”
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      I wonder why people are downvoting your comment. It’s literally what happened. See for instance this paper on the history of gender segregation in the Olympics: https://theworld.org/stories/2016-08-17/see-120-years-struggle-gender-equality-olympics.

      Quote: “Margaret Murdock from the US won a silver in a tie in the 1976 Riffle Event, one of the events in the shooting categories. The rifle event was split into men’s and women’s events in 1984.”

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        Sports without contact mechanics I’ve always wondered why the split. Like men’s and women’s chess… what?

        But men’s and women’s football? That kind of makes sense, not saying women’s should be banned from the men’s leagues, but let them make that choice themselves

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        She got a silver and 8 years later it was split into men and women’s events?

        She didn’t even win…

        It’s sad the mental gymnastics and revisionist history you all perpetuate to support your biased agenda.

        Just another reason why the vast majority of people on these forums are not worth taking seriously.

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          8 months ago

          For someone with such issues with the forum, you seem to be doing a lot of whining and not much leaving.

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            8 months ago

            Why would I stop participating because ya’ll are a bunch of dunces?

            That’s how you win and shut me out of the conversation, lol. Which is exactly what you’re trying to do.

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              That’s how you win and shut me out of the conversation, lol. Which is exactly what you’re trying to do.

              People tend to do that to ya when you’re personality is centered around being wrong and obnoxious.

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                But I’m correct and respectful.

                I’m just saying things you don’t like, which is why you try to shut me out of the conversation.

                I see it all the time and don’t expect more from people like you.