President Trump has issued an executive order that, in various ways, seeks to prevent men from competing on women’s sports teams. The state of California has announced that it will not abide by Trump’s executive order, and will continue to allow men in women’s sports. That has gotten quite a bit of publicity; what is less well known is that the Minnesota State High School League has said the same thing.
MSHSL says that the state’s human rights law, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of “gender identity,” governs, and it requires “trans” women (i.e., men) to be allowed into women’s sports. Of course, that doesn’t follow from the anti-discrimination law at all. But what is the practical consequence of allowing junior high school and high school boys and men onto women’s sports teams?
My youngest daughter won two state championships in dance, which in Minnesota is a major team sport. In the course of that career she and her teammates had a run-in with the State High School League. She refers to that, as well as describing the consequences of the State High School League’s determination to allow men on girls’ dance teams, in this X thread:
The Minnesota State High School League has a long history of being anti-women. In 2015 they allowed blatant cheating from one of the teams competing in the dance team state tournament. When the rule-abiding teams peacefully & quietly protested including the team in the… https://t.co/gb4p10enql
— Kathryn Hinderaker (@KathrynHindy) February 7, 2025
trashing us young women for "poor sportsmanship" for trying to uphold the integrity of our sport. (This was met with much laughter from male hockey players I knew, who said they had never been accused of the same for bashing each other with sticks.) He used the media to…
— Kathryn Hinderaker (@KathrynHindy) February 7, 2025
It has never surprised me that they care not at all about the safety or comfort of the UNDERAGE GIRLS they are supposed to be protecting. In the case of dance team and some other sports, schools often welcome 7th and 8th graders to join their teams, esp at smaller schools…
— Kathryn Hinderaker (@KathrynHindy) February 7, 2025
The MSHSL seems to find no problem with putting girls as young as TWELVE in dressing rooms with men as old at EIGHTEEN. I hope the @MSHSL rethinks this sick policy and comes to their senses. Not holding my breath.
— Kathryn Hinderaker (@KathrynHindy) February 7, 2025
I asked my daughter whether the girls are naked in dressing rooms. Her answer:
Oh yeah lol. Every day in a tiny room. You’re naked next to someone two inches away.
So Minnesota’s State High School League wants naked 18-year-old women (or 12-year-old girls, I’m not sure which is worse) dressing inches away from naked 18-year-old men. This is the idiocy to which anti-Trump ideology has led us.
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