12/5/11: Boy Wins Girls Swimming Title

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In Massachusetts Will Higgins has won the South Division’s fall swimming and diving championships for girls. Will is a boy.

So what is a boy doing competing in a championship race for girls? Will Higgins is among “roughly two dozen boys competing on girls teams in Massachusetts – because their schools do not have boys swimming programs. The boys are able to disregard this one-gender-only rule because of the open access amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution. That amendment was voted into law in the 1970s. It mandates that boys and girls must be afforded equal access to athletics.”

Critics call it another consequence of the ridiculous crusade to break down any and all distinctions between the sexes.