"Court: Boy Can't Join Girls' Gym Team" [View All]

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"A state appeals court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by a boy who wanted to compete on his high school's girls' gymnastics team.

The District 4 Court of Appeals upheld a judge's dismissal of Keith Michael Bukowski's lawsuit against the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, which has a rule prohibiting boys from competing in girls' sports.

Courts have previously ruled that letting boys compete on girls' teams jeopardizes opportunities for girls. But Bukowski, who had competed in gymnastics at a local YMCA, argued the case was similar to recent examples of girls who were allowed to compete on boys' teams in football and wrestling." http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8LNGQ681.html

For the record, I consider myself to be a devout feminist. But equal is supposed to be equal and if women can play on the men's teams shouldn't the reverse hold true? This kind of stuff strikes me as patronizing to women and I think it only feeds into the perpetuation of us being second-class and less capable than men.

This will probably spark a TON of controversey but I feel the same way about drunk sex. If both parties are drunk, why is it that a woman is incapable of giving consent but a man in the same state is guilty of not getting consent? I may be missing some vital point of law but, again, it seems to imply that women need men to protect them.