This Is What Bias Looks Like.

Google Bard: What are the common injuries in girls field hockey?

Although field hockey is classified as a non-contact sport, acute injuries may result from contact with a stick, the ball, another player or the playing surface or goal cage.

The most common injuries in women's field hockey include:

    Hand and wrist injuries. ...
    Facial injuries. ...
    Ankle injury. ...
    Knee injury. ...
    Concussion. ...
    Overuse injuries.

Now then facial injuries are right there up at the top of the injuries.

 

This was on the news here on the Cape last week...

Injury in Massachusetts field hockey game renews debate about co-ed sports
WCVB
By Peter Eliopoulos
November 3, 2023


A student-athlete suffered a significant injury during a field hockey game played Thursday between two Massachusetts high schools, and the incident is renewing a debate about co-ed sports.

Dighton-Rehoboth Superintendent Bill Runey said in a letter to families that a shot taken by a male member of the Swampscott team left one of their female players with "significant facial and dental injuries," which included having two of her teeth knocked out.

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Wolff emphasized the male player "has the exact same right to participate as any player on any team."

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"Massachusetts General Law was originally enacted to protect students from discrimination based on sex, and later expanded to protect students based on gender identification. As a result of this law, and consistent with the interpretive guidance offered by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, athletic opportunities must be afforded to students in accordance with their identified gender, not necessarily their birth-assigned gender," MIAA officials wrote.

So was it caused by a trans athlete?

Despite the headline it turns out he wasn’t a trans athlete but a co-ed player.

As a result of this 1979 ruling, the MIAA amended its rules to state, “A girl may play on a boys’ team if that sport is not offered in the school for the girl, and a boy may play on a girls’ team if that sport is not offered in the school for the boy.” Boys have been competing on girls’ teams, and girls have been competing on boys’ teams, for more than forty (40) years.

So this has been going on for 40 years! 40 years that boys were allowed to play on girls teams and vice versa but they have a problem with trans students playing on teams of our gender!

There is a very easy answer to co-ed teams, have the sport offered for both male and female teams so they can play on the teams of the gender that they identify with.

The Boston Herald had the headline,
‘Horror’ of girl’s brutal field hockey injury from boy’s shot sparks gender debate

The New York Post,
Field hockey captain slams policy allowing male athletes on girls’ teams after teammate has teeth knocked out

Newsweek was even worst with their headline,
Shocking Field Hockey Injury Sparks Fight Over Transgender Athletes

 
The other athlete wasn’t trans he was a cis-gender player on the girls team!

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website PubMed* reported in 2008 that,

Results: A total of 253 student-athlete seasons (each season that a player competed was considered 1 student-athlete season) were completed. A total of 57 incidents occurred with 62 head and facial injuries reported (5 incidents yielded 2 injuries each). Most injuries were due to contact with the ball (56%); the majority of injuries were lacerations (32%). A relatively high number of facial fractures were reported (13%). Sixty-five percent of the injuries resulted in less than 1-day time loss and would not have been reportable in many traditional injury surveillance systems.

Conclusions: The high number and rate of serious or potentially serious injuries occurring to the head and face in female collegiate field hockey players is a concern. Prevention measures, including better protective equipment for the head and face, may help reduce future head and facial injuries in these athletes.

The first thing everyone jumps to… trans athletes! We have to change the rules!

So I say instead of rule changes… how about the other 56 players who go hurt, they were not playing against male or trans athletes. Why don't you do something about all the injuries? Like face guards. There problem solved!

But no, they have to make it an issue about us!

The Newsweek went on to write,

Newsweek could not verify that the athlete is a male who identifies as a female.

Then why, is your headlines “… Sparks Fight Over Transgender Athletes” why even write that when you know it is not true! All it does is stir up anger against trans people!

That is what bigotry and bias looks like!

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For those who are familiar with PudMed, it is the website where:

PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez system of information retrieval.

In other words, it is a library of research papers.