{"id":2603,"date":"2024-03-18T16:20:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T16:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2024-03-18T16:20:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T16:20:23","slug":"girls-basketball-team-chooses-to-forfeit-playoff-match-over-facing-biological-male-opponent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=2603","title":{"rendered":"Girls\u2019 Basketball Team Chooses To Forfeit Playoff Match Over Facing Biological Male Opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bold move that reflects the values of faith and fairness, a Vermont Christian school recently made headlines by forfeiting a playoff basketball game. The reason? Their girl\u2019s basketball team was scheduled to face off against a team that had a biological male player on its roster.<br \/>\nMid Vermont Christian School, a proud institution dedicated to its Christian beliefs, found itself at the center of controversy when they opted not to play against the Long Trail Mountain Lions, a team with a male student-athlete. Despite Vermont state regulations permitting biological males to compete in girls\u2019 sports, Mid Vermont Christian School stood firm in its conviction that such a decision jeopardized both the fairness of the game and the safety of their players.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-seeded Eagles from Mid Vermont Christian School were slated to take on the 5-seed Long Trail Mountain Lions. However, by forfeiting the game, the Mountain Lions were granted an uncontested path to the next round of the playoffs. NOTE: This is borrowed satire<\/p>\n<div class=\"684f6003e199ca137b09540a661b4c2d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M940464ScriptRootC1583286\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/k\/o\/kohajone.press.1583286.js\" async>\r\n<\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bold move that reflects the values of faith and fairness, a Vermont Christian school recently made headlines by forfeiting a playoff basketball game. The reason?&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}