Read the article. So...they offered zero statistics. And the only parent they quoted is one of the most prominent TRAs in the country? I mean...at least find one other rando so you can pretend to justify pluralizing "parent".
Click bait headlines have to be one of the top blights on modern media.
Thank you so much, Lisa and Alejandra, for the hard and good work that went into this round-up. Here is something concrete to do for anyone who resides in New York City:
As indicated in the round-up: Community Education Council District 2 (the largest school district in Manhattan) passed a good resolution “Calling for a Comprehensive Review and Redrafting of NYCPS Guidelines on Gender with Regard to the Application and Impact on Female Athletes Participating in Physical Education, Intramural and Competitive Public School Athletic League (PSAL) Sports.” The vote was 8 in favor, 3 opposed, I believe. The resolution is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ygeLcQW4loVaAkXz7zKftye7HyspJzGe/view (it’s well worth a read—completely reasonable and well-supported.)
>To all Manhattan residents to contact Levine’s office to state your view;
>To anyone residing in NYC to write CEC District 2 to show your support. The CEC email addresses are here: https://www.cecd2.net/our-members. I recommend including, in addition to the general email, emails to the resolution sponsors, who are Leonard Silverman, Allyson Bowen, Maud Maron, and Sabine Serinese;
>If your reps are any of Hoylman, Glick, Simone, or Bottcher, I recommend writing to them, too;
>Also, if you are not in CEC District 2, but reside in NYC, consider writing to New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) Chancellor David C. Banks to indicate your support for the resolution and asking the NYCPS to adopt it;
>If you are a Democrat, I recommend stating that, as, though this is a non-partisan issue, Levine and others of course paint this as MAGA.
Here is some of the text from what I wrote, if you want to use it as a starting point (though I strongly recommend individualizing what you write):
“This should be a non-partisan issue. That it is not has been particularly dismaying to me, as a lifelong Democrat. I share strongly the concerns contained in the resolution, and particularly that the voices of women and girls who share these concerns have not been properly included in the discussion about these issues. The resolution offers an excellent, worthy, and non-ideologically inflected path by which we can assure both fairness to women and girls and inclusion of all young people, however they identify, who wish to participate in school athletics, goals I am sure we all share.
“The resolution, if adopted by the NYCPS, would go a long way toward correcting the impasse in which we currently find ourselves. Nothing in the resolution prejudges the outcome: it merely requests that there be a full examination of the facts that includes all the relevant stakeholders and evidence, not merely a subset.”
The news of the result in the Beryl Ackroyd Cup tournament shows we're getting closer to what I want to see: a competitor in the women's division of a very physical sport such as soccer fielding an all male team.
"parents rage"
Read the article. So...they offered zero statistics. And the only parent they quoted is one of the most prominent TRAs in the country? I mean...at least find one other rando so you can pretend to justify pluralizing "parent".
Click bait headlines have to be one of the top blights on modern media.
Thank you so much, Lisa and Alejandra, for the hard and good work that went into this round-up. Here is something concrete to do for anyone who resides in New York City:
As indicated in the round-up: Community Education Council District 2 (the largest school district in Manhattan) passed a good resolution “Calling for a Comprehensive Review and Redrafting of NYCPS Guidelines on Gender with Regard to the Application and Impact on Female Athletes Participating in Physical Education, Intramural and Competitive Public School Athletic League (PSAL) Sports.” The vote was 8 in favor, 3 opposed, I believe. The resolution is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ygeLcQW4loVaAkXz7zKftye7HyspJzGe/view (it’s well worth a read—completely reasonable and well-supported.)
As I understand it, 2 of the 3 opposing were Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine appointees. Levine himself sent out a statement in opposition which you can find here: https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1770765417088188582 Brad Hoylman, Debbie Glick, Tony Simone, and Eric Bottcher also put out a statement in opposition, which you can find here: https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/brad-hoylman-sigal/statement-regarding-community-education-council
I recommend the following:
>To all Manhattan residents to contact Levine’s office to state your view;
>To anyone residing in NYC to write CEC District 2 to show your support. The CEC email addresses are here: https://www.cecd2.net/our-members. I recommend including, in addition to the general email, emails to the resolution sponsors, who are Leonard Silverman, Allyson Bowen, Maud Maron, and Sabine Serinese;
>If your reps are any of Hoylman, Glick, Simone, or Bottcher, I recommend writing to them, too;
>Also, if you are not in CEC District 2, but reside in NYC, consider writing to New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) Chancellor David C. Banks to indicate your support for the resolution and asking the NYCPS to adopt it;
>If you are a Democrat, I recommend stating that, as, though this is a non-partisan issue, Levine and others of course paint this as MAGA.
Here is some of the text from what I wrote, if you want to use it as a starting point (though I strongly recommend individualizing what you write):
“This should be a non-partisan issue. That it is not has been particularly dismaying to me, as a lifelong Democrat. I share strongly the concerns contained in the resolution, and particularly that the voices of women and girls who share these concerns have not been properly included in the discussion about these issues. The resolution offers an excellent, worthy, and non-ideologically inflected path by which we can assure both fairness to women and girls and inclusion of all young people, however they identify, who wish to participate in school athletics, goals I am sure we all share.
“The resolution, if adopted by the NYCPS, would go a long way toward correcting the impasse in which we currently find ourselves. Nothing in the resolution prejudges the outcome: it merely requests that there be a full examination of the facts that includes all the relevant stakeholders and evidence, not merely a subset.”
The news of the result in the Beryl Ackroyd Cup tournament shows we're getting closer to what I want to see: a competitor in the women's division of a very physical sport such as soccer fielding an all male team.
What a mess this all is! Unbelievable!