“Why was a boy allowed to play on the other team?” my fifth-grade daughter asked me as we walked off the field at a recent club soccer match.
Good question. This wasn’t a situation I thought we would experience at such a young age. But my daughter’s claim was warranted: The boy posing as a girl was bigger and stronger than the biological girls on the field. It was obvious she had a clear advantage in terms of size and speed.
Recall what happened in deep-blue Oregon on April 2: A boy once named Zachary Rose won the high school varsity high jump competition. One issue: Zachary competed in the girls’ competition as Lia Rose. Another problem: As Zachary, two years prior, he finished dead last in the high jump on the Junior Varsity level.
This time around, however, Zachary, as Lia, won easily with a jump of 4 feet, 8 inches. But when Zachary competed against other…
