The U-11 Madison 56ers girls soccer team is standing up for their short-haired players who often times get called boys by the opposing side.

…What has taken the girls, their parents, even their coach by surprise is the impact of that style choice.

They’ve been ridiculed by opposing parents, coaches, even referees, all of whom refused to accept that they were not boys. At tournaments, they have been asked to prove their gender, and were told they didn’t deserve medals.

…”(Our girls) are just physical and are playing the sport the way it’s supposed to be played. When we tell a parent on the other team that they’re girls they just say, ‘Yeah right.'”

Once, the team went up to receive medals at a tournament, but didn’t get the congratulations that they thought they deserved. A referee told the girls they didn’t deserve to get medals because they played with boys on the team. 

“They say, ‘They’re too good. They move like boys,'” Julie Minikel-Lacocque, Adah’s mom said. “All these players have experienced the same discrimination, and I really would call it that. From teams demanding passports and accusations of cheating. It’s incredibly damaging to the girls.”

Madison girls soccer team bristles at critics who say players are boys

Is it really 2017?
Are we really still going through stupid, stupid nonsense like this?
Man alive, how surreal…