LEOMINSTER – Leominster High School senior Ren Patel is speaking out against a new potential athletic policy that she says targets transgender students. The policy was brought up in the last school committee meeting earlier this month.
“I believe it’s unfair because it gives people the opportunity to in a sense, discriminate based on someone else’s sex, saying I don’t want to play against you because your of opposite sex,” Patel said.
The big debate centers around a part of the policy that states no student-athlete or coach of a single-sex team shall be penalized by the district for forfeiting or refusing to play in a game against an opposing team because that team includes a member of the opposite sex. In July, the Dighton-Rehoboth School Committee put a similar policy on the books …