A male-to-female transgender high school student made headlines after injuring not one, but three female opponents during a basketball game in February forcing the opposing team to forfeit.
On February 8, the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell (Massachusetts) girls’ basketball team, forfeited their game against rival, KIPP Academy, after a biological-male athlete on KIPP’s team repeatedly injured their players.
According to a Fox News article, Collegiate Charter spokesperson Casey Crane released a statement which indicated the school’s approval of coach Kevin Ortins’ decision to forfeit at halftime.
The statement read:
"On February 8th, the coach of the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell Girls’ Basketball Team decided to end a game at halftime after watching a third player injured in the game with KIPP Academy …
"The bench was already depleted going into the game with the 12-player roster having four players unable to play. When the coach saw three more go down in the first half leaving him with five players, he made the call to end the game early. The upcoming Charter School playoffs were looming, and he needed a healthy and robust bench in four days.”
Crane’s statement, though, does not denounce the offending player or KIPP Academy’s choice to allow a biological male, who according to a source, stands at 6 feet tall and has facial hair, to play on the school’s girls basketball team.
She goes on to say,
“In an effort to maintain safety for his team, he decided to forfeit. The Charter School supports this decision and reiterates its values of both inclusivity and safety for all students. We take the standards set by the MIAA and our Board of Trustees seriously and strive to uphold them on and off the court. We also follow the guidance from the MIAA and state laws regarding equity and access for all student-athletes.”
Section 43.3.1 of The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) handbook that Crane refers to, states that, "a student shall not be excluded from participation on a gender-specific sports team that is consistent with the student’s bona fide gender identity."
However, in Section 43.3.2, the handbook reads:
"When a school district submits a roster to the MIAA, it is verifying that it has determined that the students listed on a gender-specific sports team are eligible to participate either based on the gender listed on their official birth certificate or based on their bona fide gender identity and that no students are included on the roster solely for the purpose of gaining an unfair advantage in competitive athletics. The MIAA shall defer to the determination of the student and the student’s school regarding gender classification."
Section 43.3.4 continues,
"It is a recommended best practice that schools communicate with their opponents as necessary about the gender-specific needs of their team in order to promote inclusion – e.g. to ensure that appropriate locker room facilities are available, that announcer use athlete’s correct pronouns, etc."
Bona fide gender identity, huh?
So, now, what they’re telling us is that if a 6-foot-tall male, which is 3 inches taller than the national average, decides that he’s tired of being a mediocre player on the boys’ team, he can put on some lipstick and a girls’ team jersey and manhandle with our daughters because he’s bona fide.
A video making its way around the internet shows a Collegiate Charter athlete fighting the transgender male athlete for the rebound when she is shoved to the ground injuring her back.
Former NCAA female swimmer and no stranger to headlines concerning transgender athletes, Riley Gaines, chimed in on X, formerly known as Twitter:
“Trans-identified male player for Kipp Academy in MA injured 3 girls before half time causing Lowell Collegiate Charter School to forfeit.
A man hitting a woman used to be called domestic abuse. Now it's called brave.
Who watches this & actually thinks this is ‘compassionate, kind, and inclusive’?”
Collegiate Charter Athletic Director, Kyle Pelczar, denies that the team forfeited on the account of the transgender player. Pelczar remains adamant the forfeiture was in an attempt to keep the team healthy ahead of playoffs.
Even in ancient Rome, an era marked by savagery and brutish barbarism, the female Gladiatrices were not allowed to battle their male counterparts in contests within Coliseum walls. What does that make us? More cruel and merciless than a group of people who ripped each other limb from limb for sport?
So why does this matter to believers? Simple. God will not be mocked. He will not be made small and obsolete. By His design, there are two genders: male and female and until we restore God to his rightful place – the center of all – we will continue to fall shamefully short as a society.
