A 6th grade girls team from Kentucky was set to go for the year-end championship tournament, but was told they were banned due to fears boys teams might ‘retaliate’ if they lost to the girls team.

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    It’s not inequality to identify the different leagues. They could have been the, “Alternate National Basketball League” if they wanted, but instead opted to use a clearer descriptor. Also, just because it’s labeled, doesn’t make it anything lesser and it’s not insulting, it’s just a literal description of what it is. In internal international competition, they are identified as men’s and women’s sports, but it would be nonsensical to rebrand a league just because a different league uses a more specific name.

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        “Redskin” is a is a racial slur and is a negative descriptor. “Women” is not a slur nor insulting. These are two very different situations, unless you’re insinuating that calling females, “women” is some kind of insult akin to calling Native Americans “Redskins”.