# What about a boy playing on a girls' sports team? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 24, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-a-boy-playing-on-a-girls-sports-team/702376 "2014-10-24T18:07:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 37
**Author:** ![cmosdes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cmosdes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmosdes)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-a-boy-playing-on-a-girls-sports-team/702376/37 "2019-07-11T19:47:44Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Think about this from a practical standpoint. A women’s field hockey team with 10 boys will almost always beat a team with all girls. Teams will recruit boys to compete. Over time every team will become a all boys team in practice simply due to competition. Allowing boys to play girls sports has the same effect as converting that sport to a men’s sport and removing “equal participation”. Yes, you are exactly right which is why it is great we have leagues dedicated to only women. It is important we recognize that having opportunities to compete like that are good for the participants, even if they aren’t the best of the best. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-a-boy-playing-on-a-girls-sports-team/702376)._