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The headline as well.

Heard about this yesterday

soccer players are lesbians!

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http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/omaha-youth-soccer-player-disqualified-after-gender-confusion-gets-shout/article_0d8f2e55-243c-5725-b8cf-29cb0e3013cc.html

So someone claimed she was a boy, but the league was going by the paperwork, not because they thought she looked like a boy. Still should have checked it out and let them play, imo. They're little kids.

Rosters are set in stone after a certain point, and everybody knows it. Someone on the team screwed up.

My parents always cut my hair that short when I was a kid. I was frequently confused as a boy--until I hit puberty, a point at which there was no question that I was a girl. I was never kept from playing in soccer tournaments, but that's because there were no girls soccer programs at the time. Poor kid. Those idiotss owe her an apology.

She is listed as a boy on the roster. It's a misprint that was never corrected. In many youth sports, you have several months to correct a roster after filing it with your governing body. But there's a deadline after which no roster changes can be made. The officials look terrible in this story, but the team manager screwed up, too, if the OWH story is correct.

can't screw up the roster. Doesn't matter what the player looks like or not.

I wouldn't say it's manufactured, as that implies deliberate misreporting. It's just run-of-the-mill sloppy local TV news getting picked up as gospel.

It inspired someone to complain at the playoffs, and led to the discovery of the roster violation, for which the team was disqualified.

physical difference. "At this age" should be considered as there is little to no difference between boys and girls.

I recall reffing a league about 10 years ago when an all girl U14 team played in the boys league. At the beginning of the season parents on other teams chuckled, but they didn't stop to think girls go thru puberty earlier than boys. At the end of the season parents grumbled that the girls were the champions because they had an unfair size advantage. Only one boys team managed a draw...

Girls middle school age are more powerful than boys, and it seems to me they are more focused playing as a team.

My sister is also an accomplished adult player. She once played in a men's vs. women's match that made the news because the men's team behaved very badly when it became clear they were going to lose.

Grownups (supposedly) who are humiliating an 8 year old girl, and for what earthly reason?They are likely causing psychological harm on her. As the mother of an 8 year old girl this makes me so angry.