Katie Hnida, First and only women to score a point in NCAA Div-I Football The recent topic of debate in class was that of men playing in women’s sport, and in this particular example field hockey. My opinion on this is that there are reasons we have men’s teams and women’s teams, physically we are very different. The video we watched in class had a high school male playing field hockey on a girl’s team and he was a lot larger than the girls he was playing with. All this being said he was frowned upon greatly even by most of the parents on the same team. Should it be this way? Personally I agree with the parents that he should not be allowed to play with girls but it also has to be put in the other way around, no double standard, girls should not be able to compete on guy’s teams either. Why should it be ok for one sex to be able to do it and not the other? It is and sounds very hypocritical. The girl playing with all guys on an all guys hockey or football team has a MUCH greater chance of getting hurt playing with all guys then the girls playing with one guy. So why are those parents who oppose him playing field hockey not opposing the girl playing on the ice hockey team? Most of them cited safety being the number one concern. If you want it to where girls can play on guy’s teams then why can’t guys play on girls teams? I think that there is a reason we have separate teams for men and women boys and girls and it should stay that way and if not you can’t just allow the door to open one way if you allow one sex the opportunity then you must allow both the same opportunities.
