Should girls be allowed to play on boys’ sport’s team? I

Kimberly Mata

Should girls be allowed to play on boys’ sport’s team? I believe that girls should be able to play on boys’ sport’s team because girls can be as good as boys when playing sports just because we are girls doesn’t mean that we are weak and don’t know how to play any sport that’s meant for boys. Girls can sometimes play better that a boy and if a girl like to play football then we should all have the right to play the sports that we like to play without anyone having to tell us we can’t play because it might be tough for us. According to the article “Girl allowed to play football on Catholic team” it says “Caroline Pla has played football since kindergarten. But was told last fall the no-girls rule would be enforced in her Bucks County league.” I say that girls should be allowed to play any game because its what we like to do. In the article it also explained that “This week, the 12 year old girl and her family asked the Liberty Union Thurston school board for permission to play with the boys on the middle school team.” “In a decision questioned by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and an Ohio High School Athletic Association official, the school district said no.” At the end they explain how “our attorney said it is very clear the school district does have the right to determine whether girls participate in contact sports,” Mathew said. The federal law, known as the Title IX, does allow girls to be banned from boys’ contact sports.”