Trans Athlete Joins High School Football Team

[MadelineB]

Trans Athlete Joins High School Football Team
A transgender man is playing varsity running back for his high school football team in Grosse Pointe, Mich.
BY SUNNIVIE BRYDUM
SEPTEMBER 06 2012 5:53 PM ET

http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2012/09/06/trans-athlete-joins-high-school-football-team



A transgender man, a senior at Grosse Pointe South High School in Michigan, has joined his school's varsity football team, according to the school newspaper's website.

Seth Knop says he wanted to join the football team last year but was too afraid to try out. But this year he approached both varsity and junior varsity football coaches and was told that the school's athletic policy permitted coed sports teams. Knop is a running back for Grosse Pointe's varsity football team.

"The kids in my grade respect me a lot for it," said Knop of his being an out transgender athlete. "They treat me just like everybody else, which is what I wanted."

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Link to article in school paper: http://www.thetowerpulse.net/?p=9649

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But this year he approached both varsity and junior varsity football coaches and was told that the school's athletic policy permitted coed sports teams.

But why should it matter if the team is coed? This player is a boy.

[Padma]

Perhaps he's not legally male yet - or that's just their way of dodging the issue .