Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-12-05 15:49:09 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 64A008B221E88B34FAE0A0850EED88B42128B3CC5C215A0ED9A4F37D286D4BFB
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Original Note:
While this is true for a few sports like skeet shooting, the majority of sports were already segregated. Instead, according to historians, most women's sports leagues were created by female educators. This thread expresses a fringe view that two historians called misleading https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/sports/title-ix-anniversary-womens-sports.html#:~:text=In%20the%20late%2019th%20century%2C%20female%20educators%20in%20American%20high%20schools%20and%20colleges%20began%20forming%20teams%20for%20girls%20and%20women%20to%20play%20sports%20like%20softball%20and%20basketball%2C%20said%20Susan%20K.%20Cahn%2C%20a%20historian%20at%20the%20University%20at%20Buffalo%20and%20the%20author%20of%20a%20book%20on%20gender%20and%20sexuality%20in%20women%E2%80%99s%20sports.
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