Can my little sister sue her school for discrimination?

Question

She is 14 and wants to stay on the boys hockey team but they want her to move to the girls team ...but she is 10 times better than the female hockey players and she is better than half of the boy hockey players ...But the school says that it is Policy for 14 year old to play with their own sex..I told her I support her all the way .....how are thing in the system going to get better if we do not challenge them

WHAT ARE HER CHANCES AND CAN SHE SUE????

Answer 1

you better believe she can and she just might get enough money to pay for college
go for it

smile all the way to the back
get the BEST attorney..

good luck

Answer 2

Just because you're not getting something you want, doesn't mean you should sue. That's just an example of the spoiled brat mentality that contributes to the decay of civility in our country and of our society as a whole. If there was no girls team, then I think opening up the boys team to girls is okay. Even then it's a decision that each school should be free to make on its own and the students and parents -- while free to vigorously debate the subject -- should abide by the school's decision. In this case there is a girls team and so she should consider herself LUCKY that she had the opportunity to play on a boys team at all. The fact is, some boy got cut from that team because your sister was a better player. But is that same boy allowed to try out for the girls team? No. So how fair is that? And the fact is that soon there will be full contact on the boys team and your sister will end up playing on the girls team anyway. Mixing boys and girls in that environment is a terrible idea. Men and women are equal in value but are NOT the same. Plus, the world needs more chivalry. Your sister should debate the issue and the abide by the school's decision. Plain and simple. If her position is valid, then she should be able to make the case. The threat of a lawsuit is NOT valid. It's about as valid as pulling a gun on them. If she can put away her selfish desires and choose instead to make the world a slightly nicer place, she should VOLUNTEER to play for the girls team. There she should strive to set a good example, lead her team, and inspire and challenge her teammates to a higher level of play. Now wouldn't that be grand? Sure beats an ugly lawsuit. Best Regards, Rob

Answer 3

It has to do with locker room arrangements, bus rides to games(i remember wild stuff happening on buss rides to games when our guys and girl teams rode together), and the fact that it is a contact sport. Men usually get a heck of a lot bigger than women. I know I'd rather be checked by some 200 pound chick than a solid 350 muscle bound hulk of a guy. Also, I'm not sure if you've got it at your high school. Our hockey teams were allowed the one-on-ones just like pros. THERE IS YOUR BIG NO!! It will never happen. If you tried to sue for discrimination and got any judge and defense lawyer to oppose you with half a mind, you'd be wasting your time and money.

Answer 4

Gender-based discrimination is resolved using a constitutional standard called intermediate scrutiny.

Basically, to prevail, the school would need to show that they are serving an important school interest, and that the means chosen directly relate to that interest. Without checking on the particular laws of your state, it is likely that the school will be able to show
an important goal of student safety (physical and sexual), and that gender segregation is the easiest way to achieve that goal. That gives the school reasonable good odds of winning.

So, can she sue? Sure. Anyone can. Will she win? That depends on a lot of details not included in your question, and on the specific laws of your state and how related court cases in the past have come down. That's why only licensed attorneys, who do the proper research, can actually give legal advice.

Wish her good luck.

Answer 5

Although I am sure your sister is very good, she has no place on a boys team. Spelled BOYS. This excludes GIRLS. It is high time that females understand the meaning of the words and the differences. Your sister is leaving herself open to the wrath of the other teams boys. And I can't say as I would blame them if they were very hard on her. There is a reason that boys play with boys and girls play with girls. What would happen if one of these boys happened to elbow her in the crotch? I'll bet you would sue for sexual harassment wouldn't you? Grow up! Both of you! She is a girl! Not a boy. And when she grows up, she will be a woman, not a man! It is not discrimination, it is common sense. Boys are getting tired of the double standard being imposed by society. And as a male 54 years old that has had to, "Give In", all of my life to girls, or blacks, or what ever the hell, I can understand. And if these young men take a stand, I can not blame them.
And no, she can not sue if this is stated and written policy. Just by playing the sport, she has to agree to the rules. Or not play at all. Or she can change schools. To one that allows it.

And one more thing, I have a daughter, 12 years old. If this were her, I would feel the same way. She is a girl, a young woman. I would not want her playing with the boys if it were against the rules.

Answer 6

Your little sister is a rarity, not the norm. Since they offer a girls program as well, you have no case to sue. If all the boys stopped playing with her, then she would be alone and no practice or games so she would then have to re join the all girls team,right?
She would have to sue as an individual, not you or her parents. The boys could sue her right back if it caused unnecessary duress on their practice or games, they have rights as well. There is no case.

Answer 7

She can try and sue them if she wants, but there's no way in hell she'd win. It's long standing policy that it is NOT considered discrimination to separate sports team by gender, so long as equal resources are given to boys' and girls' sports. Given that she can still play on the girls team, she can't even argue she's being denied the chance to play based on her gender. And quite frankly, I think it's ridiculous that she's been playing on the boys team until now given that they do have a girls team as well.

In order to sue them, she would basically have to argue that boys are inherently better at hockey than girls, and so she's being forced to play on the second-rate team. But even then, people can't sue for being made to play on the JV team, and the girls team isn't even official considered a second-rate team.

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Just to clarify, if there were no girls team at all, she would have a case, but since there is a girls team that is substantially equal to the boys team, she has does not. To the best of my knowledge, every case of a girl successfully suing to play on a boys sports team has been in the absence of a girls team.

Answer 8

well the case that might be fought is that
boys are physically stronger and might hurt the other sex
which is probably something the school wants to prevent
but of course speak to the coach
and dont make this thing huge
and if u were to sue
ur chances are 50/50 dependin on the entire case

Answer 9

Don't listen to the first two idiots. There was a case here in Canada where an 8-year-old girl managed to sue a pee-wee (or was it midget?) hockey league for her to play with the boys. She won, but that was after she lost interest in the whole thing. So if you live up here, you can use that as a legal precedent the judge can use to force her league to play with the boys. Good luck.

Answer 10

Nope, They have a girls team and you can't force a school to choose what players they want to or don't want to play, They have the right to put together the best team/teams they can from whats available.

Answer 11

personally i think she should leave the boys team and let them suffer for the loss ... if she's better than half their players then they'll most likely win less games and she should take satisfaction in that and their biased policies towards women.

fvck em


ps ~ xAviator is a freakin meathead