Harold , how do you they didn't have a problem with it , but were afraid to say how they really feel ?   Sports teams only have room for x number of players per team.  Boys are generally stronger and faster than girls .  If your daughter didn't make her girls track team because she was beat out by a boy , would your daughter be happy about that ? What about a guy who can't make his varsity basketball team and decides to declare himself a girl where he easily makes the girls team---bumping your daughter off the team---would your daughter be happy she didn't get to play because a boy stole her slot ?  Basic fairness screams having boys play against girls isn't right or fair. That's why we have girls and boys teams . To allow anything else is insane , and unfair to real girls.  The subject of the original story told me that if it's true that boys are faster than girls--how come he only placed third ?  That was easy--because he was a slow boy .  He wouldn't have made the boys team .