I cant accurately describe my emotions right now.
sad
fuming
disbelief
my primary aged niece has just ran a race in a, mainly for fun, but they do get 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on positions, inter-school event.
She’s utterly convinced that 1st place out of easily, 40+ girls went to a male child.
now I was too busy watching her and a friends child running so didn’t pay attention to the other kids but I could hear one of the other parents asking ‘was this a mixed race, I thought it was girls only?’
then my niece comes up and immediately says that a boy won, my friends child was also saying the same thing.
one of the mums went and asked an official about it and they told her that they’d asked the school the child was from and they’d been told it was a girl.
my niece is absolutely insistent that it was a boy.
I think overall I’m feeling sad that those girls have already encountered this situation and a) lost a place in the rankings
b) are being actively told to ignore their instincts
although my brother and I both told them that we believed them and no it wasn’t fair.