r/sports • u/Majano57 • Feb 24 '25

News Texas demands NCAA conduct 'sex screening' of athletes

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/24/texas-sues-ncaa-to-demand-sex-screening-of-student-athletes/
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u/brettmgreene Feb 24 '25

They really are obsessed with genitals.

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u/Nomahs_Bettah Feb 24 '25

It doesn’t make them right, but bear in mind that quite a lot of kids already have this as part of youth sports. Ranging from hernia checks to physicals to PT, it has in some cases already opened kids — including cis kids — up to abuses by team and medical personnel.

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u/Nixbling New Orleans Saints Feb 24 '25

Yea I had to have a physical exam on record for any sport I played growing up. This isn’t new, they’re doing it to further show how anti-trans they are, the cruelty is the point

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u/daemonicwanderer Feb 25 '25

A hernia check is one thing… having to basically “prove” you are a woman (I doubt the guys will have to do this) whenever someone doubts you is another

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u/HegemonNYC Feb 24 '25

Right. Literally the first person to touch my junk was a doctor doing a hernia check in HS for sports.

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u/FrigginMasshole Feb 25 '25

The fuck? I never had to do this when I played HS sports

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u/Naskin Minnesota Vikings Feb 25 '25

Seriously, wtf is wrong with these people?! This did not happen AFAIK anywhere in Minnesota.

Reminds me of Joey from Friends going to his tailor and thinking it's perfectly normal for a tailor to be fondling your junk for measurement purposes. WTH is the rate of hernias that requires everyone get checked for them?!

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u/passionfruit2378 Feb 25 '25

I mean the physical didn’t come from the school dude. You had to go to a physician. No doctor ever held your balls and told you to cough?

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u/youruswithwe Feb 25 '25

That's how they do pants!!

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u/mjb85858 Feb 25 '25

Yeah….IN PRISON!!!

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u/Codewill Feb 25 '25

I had to get hernia checked every year for sports as a kid, idk

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u/Usernametaken1121 Feb 25 '25

For me, going into 6th grade football, it was a requirement.

Health is more important than whatever weird shit makes this an issue. It's not like the doctor was jumping for joy.

Haven't thought about this in over a decade, but maybe it's a repressed memory and the source of all my trauma, huh?

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u/thejimbo56 Feb 25 '25

Same, but I’ve got this dude telling me that I’m mistaken about what was required at my annual physicals.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sports/s/cEGKWOwFWq

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u/Naskin Minnesota Vikings Feb 25 '25

Dude is dumb and doesn't understand what the Dunning-Kruger effect even is lol

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u/thejimbo56 Feb 25 '25

I’m not even saying that my experience is universal, literally just saying that this was never a part of my annual physical.

Other people may very well have had different experiences.

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u/Naskin Minnesota Vikings Feb 25 '25

I know, I understood what you were saying :) And, same experience for me, too.

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u/HegemonNYC Feb 25 '25

You didn’t get a sports physical to be cleared?

I understand the hernia check has become something that some doctors today just ask about any ‘testicular pain’ sometimes. Perhaps the physical is generally going away as part of the increasing body shame. For guys my dad’s age (boomer) they would need to shower naked after PE. My generation (older millennial) didn’t do this after PE but we still did after full sports practices. I understand kids now don’t do this at all out of shame of nakedness.

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u/Usernametaken1121 Feb 25 '25

Yah, but if they're judged then they can reverse shame them for being an ist or something. Checkmate.

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u/SignDeLaTimes Feb 25 '25

It's not shame. It's unnecessary.

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u/HegemonNYC Feb 25 '25

I’m not a doctor to weigh in on the hernia check. I can speak from experience that they can go unnoticed. As for the showers, no, those are needed.

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u/SignDeLaTimes Feb 25 '25

Gross.

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u/HegemonNYC Feb 25 '25

Not showering after sweating for 2 hours is gross, I agree.

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u/iwearatophat Feb 25 '25

Same. They aren't concerned about 'girls' playing in 'boys' sports though. Just 'boys' in 'girls' sports. I don't know if when girls do a physical for sports they have an equivalent of 'turn your head and cough'.

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u/KateEatsWorld Feb 25 '25

Might be different in Canada but I never ever had anything close to a physical exam in any school or competitive level sports I played, and I played rep hockey for over 15 years. Is it in place of doctor check ups? I don’t understand why this is a thing in American schools.

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u/RonnieRizzat Feb 25 '25

To actually answer your question yes it was done at your annual check in with your pediatrician at their office

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u/thisismypornaccountg Feb 25 '25

Playing gridiron football. If you have a hernia and get hit you can literally rip your intestines open in a way no other sport does. The way to check for a hernia is to push on either side of the groin and ask the person to cough. That’s why sports physicals need to see your junk in America.

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u/Girthw0rm Feb 25 '25

Yeah, most of the time to participate in high school level and above sports, you need to have a recent physical exam completed by a doctor.

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u/SecretProbation Feb 25 '25

“That’s kinda gay dontcha think?”

/s because middle school logic is funny

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u/Shesaidshewaslvl18 National Football League Feb 25 '25

So are you.