Out of all the sports where females are forced to take a backseat to trans-identifying males, surely Irish dancing is safe, right?
Wrong.
Parents are outraged after a teenaged boy won the girls under-14 2023 Southern Region Oireachtas competition in Dallas last weekend. He has advanced to the World Irish Dancing Championships — stealing an opportunity from a deserving young girl.
“It’s going to make me cry,” one mother told The Daily Signal, who originally reported the story. “I never thought I was going to have to deal with this. And my heart breaks for my daughter and the other girls that are having to deal with this. They are too young to have to deal with topics that are going on in society, that are adult topics, that they don’t quite comprehend yet.”
Unlike most sports where males and females perform the same activities, Irish dancing is highly gendered. Men and women wear different shoes, different outfits and perform different style of dance that emphasize their own natural abilities.
“There’s just no getting around the physical differences between men and women,” former Irish dance instructor Rowena Ryan said.
“When…
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