OAN’s Brooke Mallory
5:55 PM – Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Three high school girls basketball players were seriously injured after playing against a 6-foot-tall man from the opposing team. The basketball team was then forced to forfeit the game.
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Four days before the playoff game, Kevin Ortins, the coach at the University of Lowell Charter School in Massachusetts, decided to cancel the game before halftime because the roster was starting to get thin and the starters were unable to return to the court. It was determined. .
As a result, the school forfeited its game against KIPP Academy.
according to fox news and daily necessitiesA local publication in Massachusetts featured a 6-foot-tall male player on the KIPP Academy girls team with a beard and a small ponytail.
A basketball game video purportedly showing the KIPP player in question struggling to play basketball against college players was uploaded to YouTube by an account called “InsideLowell.”
The video shows the opposing player falling to the ground in agony, grabbing his back and struggling to get back up.
Riley Gaines, a 2021 Olympic qualifier and competitive swimmer on the University of Kentucky NCAA swim team, posted her own comments on Twitter regarding the recent incident.
Gaines is a biological male with gender dysphoria who identifies as female and chooses to compete in athletics with biological females despite a clear science-backed advantage. is known on social media platforms for criticizing.
Gaines has no qualms criticizing various institutions, organizations, and the transgender community for showing indifference and disregard for biological female athletes whose scholarship opportunities and overall enjoyment are being taken away from them by men. I have no doubts. Many of the gender-confused athletes Gaines has criticized have at some point competed in their biological sex, even if they never achieved victory or success.
daily necessities reported that KIPP’s Friday game against Linn Tech was canceled due to death threats against gender-confused players.
The university’s remaining healthy players “feared that they would get injured and miss the playoffs,” the team said in a statement.
The school “reiterates its values of both inclusion and safety for all students,” the statement said.
KIPP Academy Athletic Director Anthony Grimaldi declined to comment when asked. daily necessities On whether the university believes the university’s disqualification was caused by a male player who identified as a woman.
“KIPP does not wish to comment at this time on why the opposing team abandoned the match. We look forward to the next match,” Grimaldi said.
Section 43.3.1 of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Handbook states, “No student shall be excluded from participation in a gender-appropriate sports team consistent with the student’s true gender identity.” .
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