NY High School SUSPENDS 13 Female Athletes Who Started Petition To Wear Sports Bras For Training

[NullTuples]

From Mastodon, @[e-mail] :

"Dress code sexism: While a boys track and field team was allowed to practice shirtless due to heat, the girls team was not permitted to practice in their sports bras. They were told that was because they had male coaches and the bras were distracting."

Headline: New York High School SUSPENDS 13 Female Athletes Who Started Petition To Wear Sports Bras During Training

A New York high school is under fire online after they suspended the majority of the girl’s track team following an incident over the dress code.
With increasing temperatures, the students recently shifted to practicing outdoors. The boy’s track team began practicing shirtless which motivated the girl’s team to ask the school’s athletic director if they could practice in their lycra crop tops or sports bras. The athletic director for the Albany school district, a woman named Ashley Chapple, felt that the sports bra attire would be too inappropriate. The girls were told their sports bras would be distracting for male coaches
According to sophomore sprinter Jordan Johnson, after practice one day Chappel confronted the female students about “wearing sports bras” adding that they couldn’t wear the clothing “because we have male coaches.” The following week, any female athletes who arrived to practice in a sports bra were asked to leave the session. The same week that some of the female athletes were asked to leave their practice, other girls from the same track team were met by Chapple and security when they attended a school lacrosse game and prevented from entering. Following the lacrosse game incident, 13 members of the girls’ track and field team were suspended from school.

https://www.bleacherbreaker.com/trending/new-york-high-school-suspends-13-female-athletes-who-started-petition-to-wear-sports-bras-during-training/

[marble falls]

1. So the real problem was the middleaged men who couldn't be trusted to treat women respectfully.

[TheRealNorth]

7. That's what I was expecting....

That it was conservative mothers/older women that want to shield their little Johnny from, "temptation".

[Mister Ed]

15. I can read. Here's what I read:

...the girls team was not permitted to practice in their sports bras. They were told that was because they had male coaches and the bras were distracting."

[atreides1]

16. You forgot this part

"The girls were told their sports bras would be distracting for male coaches."

[Pacifist Patriot]

24. That was my takeaway.

[Ocelot II]

2. Once again, women pay the price because men can't control their urges.

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. This x 1000

[sakabatou]

38. Bingo

[Probatim]

3. If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.

I think someone famous said that once. Can't recall the guy's name, but he's pretty well-liked.

[Conjuay]

39. and largely ignored

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

55. Half the time, it's a good idea to ignore him

He advocates for some truly horrifying things.

[Celerity]

43. that pesky Nazarene carpenter, lol

[Probatim]

45. Who spoke in Olde English - my favorite version of him.

[Dr. Strange]

47. Bah! Everyone knows that the best version of Jesus is...

Korean Jesus

[FakeNoose]

4. The obvious solution is hiring women coaches for the women athletes

[Polybius]

14. I don't agree

Hire people that can be trusted. Fire perverted men and women coaches.

[NullTuples]

28. The obvious solution is to fire any coach that the students aren't safe being around

[Lunabell]

34. Separate but equal? Segregation?

Yeah, that plays well.

[Sky Jewels]

37. Or maybe men could stop being creeps

Last edited Fri May 19, 2023, 04:43 PM - Edit history (1)

and start treating women as human beings.

[edisdead]

53. Well while that's true....

Well while that’s true, and in this article it says the male coaches were distracted, Safe Sport training doesn’t focus on just watching out for male coaches. The reality is that anyone coaching could be a problem and all coaches as Mandatory Reporters need to be on the watch for the sexualization of athletes (notice the non-gender noun there)


This article really disturbs me because what it does is it actually excuses that sexualization of children. Ralk about fucked up. These people are furthering the exact thing they think they are trying to prevent and doing it in a completely fucked up way.

[TheRealNorth]

6. The fact they were suspended for starting a petition to make a change

Is what is really disturbing to me. It's not like they broke the rules, they were trying to change the rules. But I guess we now punish any sort of civic engagement we don't like now.

[dembotoz]

10. bingo

[ruet]

13. I Don't See Anything In That Story,...

other than the title, thats says anything about a petition. Do you? "Petition" has a very specific meaning in regard to this situation. If they were actually suspended for petitioning they would probably have a solid 1A case against the school.

[sl8]

23. The Track Team Pushed Back And Created A Petition To Gain Public Support"

The Track Team Pushed Back And Created A Petition To Gain Public Support

A sophomore sprinter from the girl’s Albany High track team named Jordan Johnson created the team’s protest on the popular petition website Change.org.

There's more in the article, but the website is a royal pain in the ass to navigate.

[NullTuples]

29. My apologies for the website; when I posted it was all on a single page, not a slideshow.

[sl8]

48. Not your fault.

I was just excusing myself for not including more of an excerpt.

[Dr. Strange]

46. According to the athletic director...

they were suspended because "the girls used inappropriate language when asked to leave practice, despite being warned about their dress code violations."

[malaise]

51. THIS

Sickening

[lark2]

8. Fuckhead men suppressing girls because they are turned on. It's the men who should be suspended.

The coaches are obviously assholes and total jerks. The kids should go to another school is possible!

[LiberalFighter]

9. Seems a woman in this case was being sexist.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. A BIG, FAT K&R!

This really pisses me off.

When can we expect the MEN to control themselves, instead of putting the blame on the women?

MY GOD.

[Grins]

12. The school is doing this because they can.

A non-student female jogging on the sidewalk in front of that same school wearing a sports bra - it’s NBD. And legal.
The school and the town wouldn’t say a word.

But because it is a school with captive inmates…!

[MurrayDelph]

52. It's bigger than that

In New York State, women are allowed to be topless anywhere men are. Spurts brad are much less of an extreme (and not practical in this circumstance)

[Baitball Blogger]

18. Sick, sick, sick!

This is grooming!

[eShirl]

19. Hire coaches who can handle it.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

20. Someone needs to invent a "running top" that looks exactly like a sports bra but is called a "top"

[MineralMan]

22. Meanwhile, the entire boy's track team submitted their own petition,

stating that they wanted the girls to continue wearing those sports bras. "It inspires us," a boy's team spokeskid said.

[scarletlib]

25. Sports bras just like bikini swim tops.

Most have way more coverage than any bikini top. Men and boys need to grow up and quit slavering over girls doing athletics in sports bras

[roamer65]

26. What is it that the track and field women wear in the Olympics?

Just let them wear similar.

Seriously????? Suspension?????

[BeckyDem]

27. From the link:

( The campaign racked up tens of thousands of signatures )




I hope these wonderful young women feel validated that so many recognize the sexism attributed to them for nothing more than wearing a sports bra.


K&R

It is 2023!!!!!!!!!!! Although you would not know it reading this crap.

[onenote]

42. Well, if the story had been more upfront you'd know that by July 2022, the issue had been resolved

No excuse for the suspensions, but the fact is that the suspensions, handed down in May 2022, were rescinded a month later and a new dress code allowing athletes to wear sports bras was adopted a few weeks after that.

[BeckyDem]

44. I saw the update another poster added before you added yours....thank you.

That it happened at all is infuriating.

[Ex Lurker]

30. This happened over a year ago

Multiple stories on it on Google from last spring and summer. I don't know how it was resolved, or why it's coming up again, but it's old news.

[Dr. Strange]

33. The dress code was changed--after three appeals.

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/how-athletes-suspended-for-wearing-sports-bras-to-practice-changed-the-dress-code/2023/03

The athletic director tried to blame the male coaches, but it looks like she was full of shit. She made the call but wouldn't own it.

[BeckyDem]

35. Great news...thanks. n/t

[3catwoman3]

31. If I were a man, i would be insulted to have it assumed...

…that I could not control myself because of my anatomy.

[Chakaconcarne]

32. They're not sports bras, they're sports tops for women...

There, problem fixed for the Neanderthals.

[intheflow]

36. Way to make girls feel bad about their bodies and

while at the same time make them think all the male coaches are pervs. Meanwhile, this woman is the thought police, assuming the male coaches won’t be able to restrain their drool and bulging pants. This woman admin is completely fucked up and shouldn’t be involved with public education. I hope the school gets sued and her ass gets fired.

[onenote]

40. I wish stories like this would give dates.This happened a year ago and was resolved two months later

The suspension should never have happened but a story dated 5/13/23 that describes the situation in the present tense is somewhat misleading. The suspension was meted out in May 2022 and was rescinded in June and a new dress code allowing athletes to train wearing sports bras was adopted in July 2022.

[BlackSkimmer]

50. Thanks, I thought that was weird since it seems that's pretty much what most

female track athletes wear nowadays.

[ProfessorGAC]

41. Distracting?

I think those coaches are looking at the wrong things.
They're supposed to be looking at technique & EVENT form, not the female form.
If they're that easily distracted, they need better coaches.

[BlackSkimmer]

49. Weird. Female athletes routinely race in just sports bra and shorts these days.

Look at the Olympics.

I don't get it.

[radius777]

54. Absurd, as it has become commonplace for female athletes

to wear sports bras in many sports and athletic competitions - as others have referenced above.

Also note in this story a female athletic director is the one who made this call based upon her own outdated assumptions - namely that the girls would wear overly revealing tops and that the male coaches would be affected by this.

The sports bras are not revealing, more utilitarian, and male coaches who are professionals would not leer or be affected in any way.