yunyun333
2d ago
You can just join the track/cross country team if you want to play a sport. It requires zero investment and they'll take anyone. I'm not sure what your actual complaint here is.
yunyun333
11d ago
I was laughing at all the conservatives posting that "sarcastically". Thousandth reminder that twitter is not real life
yunyun333
11d ago
"Gas prices are high, guess I'll vote for trans kids and DEI" turned out to be true.
According to the NFHS there are 4.7 million boys and 3.5 million girls in high school athletics, and this ratio has held basically constant over the 21st century. It's somewhat more difficult to find consistent statistics for participation rate in athletics but it appears to have held around 60% for decades as well, although the pandemic obviously caused a drop. So there doesn't appear to be evidence that Title IX is specifically reducing male participation.
And most kids who participate in sports aren't the star QB, they aren't getting scholarships, and they aren't doing it to be the most popular kid in the class. We generally value sports for health, socialization, and other intangibles. Your 'male versus female equivalent' comparison also doesn't hold water; the full ride football star gets a far bigger ego boost than the 'star' of an irrelevant sport like field hockey.
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