{"id":41656,"date":"2025-03-12T13:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/?p=41656"},"modified":"2025-03-12T13:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:16:59","slug":"gender-equality-failed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ridelikeaturtle.com\/sport\/gender-equality-failed-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Equality: FAILED Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In addition to the image above, below is the complete text of the letter. Please pass it on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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12 March 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again, the league has made a purposeful and conscious decision to continue to discriminate against women and non-binary players, with the explicit inclusion of a policy allowing imbalanced 12-player lineups (7:5) that allows including men players over women and non-binary players.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will not support this.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That this lineup may only ever rarely be seen in practice, is wholly irrelevant. If that were true \u2013 and I think it is, evidenced by examining lineup cards from 2024 \u2013 then there is absolutely no reason to maintain the policy; however, in doing precisely this, the league is expressing a willingness to appease those who would wish to continue to fail to encourage women and non-binary players from participating in softball in equal numbers to men players.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The league\u2019s decision on this issue has caused me to reflect upon my participation in softball.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I cannot support a league that does not support gender equality.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis hurts me more than it hurts you\u201d has never been truer. I love playing softball. I have no doubt the league, nor anyone in it, will be impacted much by my absence. But I would not sleep at night knowing I was contributing to the success of a league that chooses to compromise on issues such as gender equality, and refuses to act, by continuing policies that fail to ensure the equal participation of women and non-binary players.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                Regards,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                John Edwards<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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