A Girls’ basketball team from Vermont is protesting the inclusion of a male player on the Long Trail School Mountain Lions’ basketball team The player, “Rose” Johnson, is 6’1” and has DOMINATED and physically intimidated the girls he is allowed to play against.
The Mid Vermont Christian School Eagles chose to forfeit the game rather than risk their girls getting injured playing against a physically dominate male. “We believe playing against an opponent with a biological male jeopardizes the fairness of the game and the safety of our players,” said MVCS head of school Vicky Fogg. “Allowing biological males to participate in women’s sports sets a bad precedent for the future of women’s sports in general.”
Fitness expert Aaron Warner gave the scientific reasons why allowing males to play against females in sports is dangerous. He told the Vermont Daily Chronicle “In one game [Johnson] had seven blocked shots. That means seven shots, typically closer to the basket so much more likely to go in, were blocked by the guy who is taller than every other girl on the floor, can jump higher and likely is significantly stronger. In what world is this even remotely fair to other Vermont Division IV girls?”
He added, “Bone mass, lean mass, cardiac output, strength capacity, work capacity and kinesiological potential all heavily advantage males. This is why men’s competition records (i.e. sprinting, jumping, weight lifting) dwarf women’s…Add to this fact that men are larger, faster and stronger than women and the potential for males injuring girls increases dramatically in competition.”
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