‘Deal With It’: High School Boy Helps Girls’ Team Win State Track And Field Championship

In Massachusetts, a high school boy took part in the girls’ indoor track and track team’s win in February. It was another example of transgender males competing against each other.

Brookline High School Junior Chloe Barnes Fourth In the 55-yard hurdles at Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Division 1 indoor track & field championship, he accumulated five points for his team.

Brookline won the title 12 points ahead of Newton North, who was second. Only the top eight preliminaries runners advanced to the finals at the meet on February 19. Shayla Quill (a senior from Andover) placed ninth. Barnes placed third in her preliminary race.

“Deal with it,” Barnes Reacting to criticisms about trans-identifying athletes on athletic teams in 2022 “Just deal with it.”

Lee Eddy, a girls track and field coach, has supported Barnes. A girl who wants to compete in the same event as a boy, but prefers to remain anonymous, said that she was Lee Eddy. “We have all kinds of different people on the team with different characters, different types of people. [X] and Chloe just kind of added to the potpourri of what we have and they blend in like everybody else does in terms of being themselves, and they’re allowed to be themselves. I think it’s great and I think they’re great. I think actually we learn a lot from each other and I learn a lot from them.”

In 2019, the Brookline School Committee Policy Review Subcommittee authored a report. “Students who are transgender may participate in accordance with the gender identity they consistently assert at school. Interscholastic athletic activities are addressed through the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Gender Identity Policy (MIAA) clarification.”

The MIAA Handbook states, “Students are entitled to be accepted by their schools as the gender with which they identify across all school programs. This means that athletic opportunities must be afforded to students in accordance with their identified gender, not necessarily their birth-assigned gender.”

“Blanket prohibitions based on gender should be avoided,” The handbook is still available. “The MIAA case in 1979 and D.M. case decided by the 8th Circuit Court show that when an athletic association has a blanket prohibition of boys playing on girls teams such rules were overly broad and not sufficiently tailored to the interest in advancing gender equity in school based athletic programs.”

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