The 麻豆传媒映画Women's Field Hockey Associationvotes next week on players鈥� uniforms: skirts or shorts? 听
The association will hold the vote because of pressure put on them through repeated and increasingly public requests from some players. Chief among the advocating players is Kaity Cooper, a field hockey player since the age of 13 who has made three formal requested to wear shorts instead of the mandated skirt.
Each was denied, she outlined in a blog post on Rabble.ca.
In the men鈥檚 game, players wear shorts. Cooper wore shorts in a September game and was ejected.
鈥溾�� if you'd have told me when I was 12 that at 28 I would be forced to play a sport I love wearing a spandex miniskirt I would not wear to the bar, I probably would have had a similar reaction,鈥� she Dec. 4 on a social justice blog 鈥淔 is for Feminist.鈥�
鈥淭he last request was made by my team on Nov. 20, 2014. [鈥 We did not have in mind anything radical. We knew that many players like the skirt and so we had no intention of taking that away from them. We merely wanted to give individual players who, like me, might not feel comfortable playing in a skirt, a choice. And so we asked that 鈥榦r shorts鈥� be added to the definition of uniform in the League constitution.鈥�
Cooper went onto explain she believes all players should have the choice to wear a skirt or shorts. She made a video to emphasize the gender discrimination.听
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