Believe it or not, when I was in middle school, I read a book about this very thing happening--and it was written as early as the 1970s.
I can't remember the title, but it was about a boy who couldn't make the school boys' basketball team, so he tries out for the girls' team--and somehow makes it on.
The slippery slope plays out over the course of the book, with more and more other schools allowing boys onto their girls' basketball teams, with at one point an opposing team having FIVE boys on their girls' team.
It's been so long that I don't remember how it ended, and I bet the book has been out of print for many years. But in hindsight, did it hit the nail on the head or what?
''Women's sports'' at the professional level will eventually feature podiums entirely filled with males.
Believe it or not, when I was in middle school, I read a book about this very thing happening--and it was written as early as the 1970s.
I can't remember the title, but it was about a boy who couldn't make the school boys' basketball team, so he tries out for the girls' team--and somehow makes it on.
The slippery slope plays out over the course of the book, with more and more other schools allowing boys onto their girls' basketball teams, with at one point an opposing team having FIVE boys on their girls' team.
It's been so long that I don't remember how it ended, and I bet the book has been out of print for many years. But in hindsight, did it hit the nail on the head or what?