Girls’ soccer team forfeits game against rivals with trans player
Cameron Henderson • 10hA girls’ soccer team forfeited a match after their opponents were allowed to play with a transgender goalkeeper.
Students at Bishop Brady High School in Concord, New Hampshire, refused to play in the match against Kearsarge Regional High School in North Sutton on Friday because their goalkeeper, Maelle Jacques, is a biological male, according to reports.
Players for Bishop Brady Giants, the Catholic school’s team, said the Kearsarge Cougars were at an advantage and they boycotted the game in order to “say no to unfair competition”, the Moms for Liberty group of Hillsborough County posted on social media.
The goalkeeper, 16, was banned from the school team earlier this year following the introduction of a new state law that barred transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports but rejoined the team in August after launching an appeal claiming that the state law violates federal Title IX rules, which prohibit discrimination based on sex in schools.
The Bishop Brady Giants’ decision to forfeit the game was praised by former competitive swimmer Riley Gaines . . .
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