Good for the goose
Well, this didn’t take too long. Can’t say that I’m surprised, either. Almost immediately following the ruling by the Manitoba Human Rights Commission that 17-year old twins Amy and Jesse Pasternak could play on the boys’ hockey team, boys have started signing up for girls’ sports teams.
Can you say coed wrestling, boys and girls?
But according to Morris Glimcher, executive director of the Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association, it seems that equality isn’t exactly a two-way street:
“If we get four guys or five guys going out for the [girls’] basketball team, there’s four or five females that won’t make the team — and I dare say a bunch of other ones aren’t going to compete — and we could end up with some female teams being made up of mostly men.
“We worked very, very hard to promote and build up female participation in sports,” Glimcher added.
“Everything that our organization has done … is based gender-equal. And if we all of a sudden get an influx of males participating, it could affect female participation and that would be a travesty.”
Hey, buddy, if it’s good for the goose, it’s good for the gander too. If you didn’t want girls’ teams getting invaded by boys who will be able to play better and bump a lot of girls from the lineup, things should have been damn well left the way they were.
