frustrated
Saturday my team went to the Eastview Invitational to compete with everyone else and had an awesome time. They completed a huge task, beating two teams in jazz and they did great in kick. However, I am so tired of the way people look at my team. Most of the competitions are held at huge suburban schools with teams similar to a large bitchy army. They give our girls rude glances, get nervous when they're in line with them in the bathrooms and act surprised when they do well.
That's nothing new but what happened Saturday reached a new long. One of our girls brought her on and off girlfriend along, she wanted her to see what she does and meet the team. The team is totally cool with her and she got along with the alternates really well. The only issue is that this girl identifies as male, which my girls don't really think much of since she looks so masculine to begin with. A few dad's of the hosting school cornered me asking about the "boy" they've seen running around.
When I explained the situation they told me I was wrong and they were sending a few moms in to our dressing room to check it out. They caused a scene, left my girls asking questions that I didn't want to answer because why would I want to single this girl out even more? It's bad enough to have a "search party of concerned parents" after you.
I can't get over how rude these people were to me, to my team and the stigma surrounding city schools. Why would a coach bring a boy along to spend the day in the girls dressing rooms? That wouldn't happen, they would arrange with the school for their male dancer to be placed near the team and work it out somehow.
I'm happy both girls involved didn't seem to care about the chaos, at the same time I'm so upset they deal with this so often. It makes me want to protect them more when we leave our school and enter a place less accustomed to gender/sexuality differences.
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