By Lucy Gilbert
A Massachusetts student athlete had two teeth knocked out Thursday when she was struck in the face by a male opponent during a high school co-ed field hockey game, leading to the questioning of the wisdom of mixing the sexes in certain co-ed school sports.
The Massachusetts Equal Rights Amendment has been around since the 1970s and allows boys to play on girls’ teams and girls to play on boys’ teams if a sport doesn’t offer separate male and female teams.
“Why is everyone so comfortable with harming girls in the name of social justice and equality? Enough is enough,” tweeted women’s sports advocate Paula Scanlan, who swam on the University of Pennsylvania’s women’s swimming team alongside “transgender” athlete Lia Thomas…




