This happened at an all girls high school hockey game in Swampscott, Massachusetts. A male who identifies as a female joined the team and hit a girl in the face, reportedly knocking her teeth out. You can hear her shrieking in pain

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[–]elsporko 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The local news never says that this is an identity issue. The report points out that MIAA (regulates school sports in MA) has a rule that if a school has a team that is not offered to both sexes then the team can be co-ed. There is no male field hockey team so males can play on the team.

https://www.wcvb.com/article/field-hockey-injury-co-ed-sports-massachusetts/45737242

[–]Horror-Swordfish 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Seems like a rule that was put in place so they could say, "well, if a girl wants to play football, she can, it just has to be on the co-ed team since there's no girls team."

[–]LyingSpirit472 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not only that, this happened in the area in the US that is second only to Minnesota for their love of hockey. There is no way those schools do not have an ice hockey team and would tell any males saying that to go play ice hockey instead, much like if a male were to go out for softball they'd tell them the baseball team's a different day.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lots of rules like this. I think if you wanna go this way with contact sports you gotta start putting in weight qualifications and the like.

Like it's one thing entirely to have Co-ed tennis or something where the people aren't going to be barreling into each other on the regular.