Another incident involving a biological male playing in women’s sports has left a female athlete injured. Unfortunately, no matter how often this happens, progressives will continue pushing for males to participate in women’s sports.
During a field hockey match between two Massachusetts high schools, a senior female player was hospitalized after being struck in the face with a shot coming from a biologically male player.
The incident left the female athlete with serious injuries.
A field hockey player for Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School was hospitalized overnight after being accidentally struck in the face with a shot during a play in an MIAA Division 3 state tournament game at Swampscott High School Thursday night.
The player, a senior female whose name wasn’t released, “sustained significant facial and dental injuries,” Superintendent Bill Runey said in a statement Friday.
“The shot was taken by a male member of the Swampscott field hockey team,” Runey said.
The play came with roughly three minutes to go in the third quarter with Swampscott ahead 1-0. A video of the play shows an offensive corner was sent to the top of the circle, with a senior Swampscott player sending an elevated shot toward the D-R goal. After the play, the game was immediately stopped, with trainers rushing onto the field to provide medical attention to the injured D-R player.
Swampscott Athletic Director Kelly Wolff released a written statement expressing regret over the incident.
"In our [Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA)] Tournament field hockey game Thursday, a player on the visiting team suffered an unfortunate injury on a legal play after being struck by a shot that deflected off her teammate's stick. We are sorry to see any player get hurt and wish the Dighton-Rehoboth player a speedy recovery," Swampscott High School Athletic Director Kelly Wolff told Newsweek. "The Swampscott player who took the shot is a 4-year varsity player and co-captain who, per MIAA rules, has the exact same right to participate as any player on any team.”
Newsweek indicated that it “could not verify that the athlete is a male who identifies as a female,” but given Wolff’s wording in her statement, it seems likely that the other player was a biological male. A spokesperson with the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) told the outlet that “student safety has not been a successful defense to excluding students of one gender from participating on teams of the opposite gender” and claimed arguments against this “fail due to the lack of correlation between injuries and mixed-gender teams.”
Well, there you have it. The spokesperson essentially admitted that the risk of injury to actual females is not enough to stop biological males who identify as transgender from participating in women’s sports. Of course, there is also the issue of the inherent unfairness involved with allowing males, who are physically stronger than females, to compete in women’s sports. But if they don’t care if females are getting injured, why would they care about the lack of fairness?
This story comes just after the North American Grappling Association (NAGA) altered its policy allowing biological males to compete against females in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu matches. The move came after a fierce backlash against the notion that the organization would pit males against girls.
The situation in Massachusetts further illustrates why it is important for people to speak out against efforts to endanger females by having them compete against males. These organizations will continue to get away with it as long as people are silent. It’s time to start making some noise.
