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Despite the fact that no one involved wants it, government busy-bodies are demanding cheerleaders provide their…uh, services…for women’s basketball games and not just the men’s games. No one’s happy about it, especially not the cheerleaders themselves.

Whitney Point is one of 14 high schools in the Binghamton area that began sending cheerleaders to girls? games in late November, after the mother of a female basketball player in Johnson City, N.Y., filed a discrimination complaint with the United States Department of Education. She said the lack of official sideline support made the girls seem like second-string, and violated Title IX’s promise of equal playing fields for both sexes.

But the ruling has left many people here and across the New York region booing, as dozens of schools have chosen to stop sending cheerleaders to away games, as part of an effort to squeeze all the home girls’ games into the cheerleading schedule.

Boys’ basketball boosters say something is missing in the stands at away games, cheerleaders resent not being able to meet their rivals on the road, and even female basketball players being hurrahed are unhappy.

Here’s a simple reality that may send some of you into convulsions. Men are men and women are women. They cannot, by definition, be exactly equal. Different genders have different wants, needs and abilities. This is not a good or bad thing, this is simply reality. Laws that eschew reality for political correctness make a mockery of the intended functions of government and do a grave disservice to society by refusing it the right to function in a manner the majority of its members find desirable.

Hat tip: Overlawyered

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