To keep another thread from getting derailed. 
I am on the fence and can see both sides of the argument. Just curious what the general feeling is for the subject. I have no issue with it up until teams are cutting players. At which point, I start to wonder if it's fair to take a spot from another boy and basically open up a spot for a girl on the girls squad.
Soccer, volleyball, basketball, track, tennis, Baseball/softball etc... If girls are allowed to tryout for boys squad than boys should be allowed to go out for girls squad. There would be zero seperation by sex. You would end up with 4 teams mixed. Instead of a Boy Var and JV plus a Girls Var and JV you would end up with an A, B, C, and D squad. At which point I have a feeling you would end up with many more boys than girls making the cut.
Never quite understood the why argument from the parent I hear so often, "because she wants to." Just like when my son says he wants to play softball at 8yr old, I tell him no. This is after watching his cousin in a Travel Tourney.
I can understand if there is no girl specific option.

I am on the fence and can see both sides of the argument. Just curious what the general feeling is for the subject. I have no issue with it up until teams are cutting players. At which point, I start to wonder if it's fair to take a spot from another boy and basically open up a spot for a girl on the girls squad.
Soccer, volleyball, basketball, track, tennis, Baseball/softball etc... If girls are allowed to tryout for boys squad than boys should be allowed to go out for girls squad. There would be zero seperation by sex. You would end up with 4 teams mixed. Instead of a Boy Var and JV plus a Girls Var and JV you would end up with an A, B, C, and D squad. At which point I have a feeling you would end up with many more boys than girls making the cut.
Never quite understood the why argument from the parent I hear so often, "because she wants to." Just like when my son says he wants to play softball at 8yr old, I tell him no. This is after watching his cousin in a Travel Tourney.
I can understand if there is no girl specific option.
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