Anonymous
08/09/2025 14:48
Subject: Sports question - under new guidance can girls play on a boys team?
In almost every sport, the best women in the world would lose to high school boys. There are many sports where teen boys as young as 14-15 have faster times than the women’s world records.
Coed in high school is fine for fun and recreation but the girls aren’t going to be competitive against the boys.
Coed in high school is fine for fun and recreation but the girls aren’t going to be competitive against the boys.
Anonymous
08/09/2025 14:30
Subject: Sports question - under new guidance can girls play on a boys team?
Anonymous wrote:It was a top U15 team - many of the boys ended up reaching the national levelAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:at least up until high school, the girls tend to be faster and stronger and more mature.
Even pre-puberty, there's a slight physical differential, and that differential favors boys. And afterwards... the 200 meter record for 17-18 year old girls is 23.24 seconds, just a bit faster than the 23.37 second record for 11-12 year old boys.
Useful data can be found here https://www.usatf.org/resources/statistics/records/championship-meet-records/usatf-national-junior-olympic-track-field-champion or by looking at the grip strength differentials here https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/4vcxd0/almost_all_men_are_stronger_than_almost_all_women/
I've heard the women's national soccer team loses against regional U-15 boy's soccer teams, but is relatively on par with U-14, for what it's worth.
My understanding is that, in fact, it happens regularly, and the US and other international teams use boys to practice against - it is just that these matches aren't supposed to be publicized.
Soccer is probably close to the worst case, as far as female sports disadvantages. It is not that hard to find college women losing in friendly soccer matches / kick offs to their school's male football or basketball teams.
Anonymous
08/09/2025 09:33
Subject: Sports question - under new guidance can girls play on a boys team?
Technically- it depends on your school’s actual numbers IF anyone were to complain.
Title IX requires equal participation numbers. In reality though, boys participation is much higher than girls. We do still love to discriminate against girls.
So, you are likely going to be fine with having girls on whatever team. Some issues though, participation might limit or exclude them from doing something else. States have different rules on whether you can do things like play the same club sport and school sport at the same time. So, for example, in a State that prohibited that, a girl could not play on the boys school soccer team and her club soccer team this Fall. But, it’s a “same sport” thing. So, a girl could play football and club soccer at the same time.
Title IX requires equal participation numbers. In reality though, boys participation is much higher than girls. We do still love to discriminate against girls.
So, you are likely going to be fine with having girls on whatever team. Some issues though, participation might limit or exclude them from doing something else. States have different rules on whether you can do things like play the same club sport and school sport at the same time. So, for example, in a State that prohibited that, a girl could not play on the boys school soccer team and her club soccer team this Fall. But, it’s a “same sport” thing. So, a girl could play football and club soccer at the same time.