Boy denied chance to compete on HS girls gymnastics squad

There's a kid in Western Mass. who competes on a girls team and won the all-around last year. (In Western Mass., gymnastics is a fall sport. In Eastern Mass. it's a winter sport).
I can think of three other boys who have competed on girls teams in the past decade and each were among the top performers on their teams. About four or five years ago, there was a boy on a girls team that won the state (winter) championship and he was barred from competing in the New England meet. I remember he was on "To Tell the Truth."
There are still boys teams in this state, but no more than 10 or so. Boys gymnastics seems to be a dying sport. On the high school level, that seems to be true of the girls sport. As Starman points out, competitive cheerleading has put a pretty big dent in that sport's numbers.

 

Any gymnast with serious competitive aspirations joins a club team. High school gymnastics is dying because there are other options for far better training and competition.

Most competitive cheerleaders are gymnastics flameouts who can do rudimentary tricks but are nowhere near elite Level 9 or Level 10 gymnasts, at the very best.

 

In other words, the very kids whom high school gymnastics needs for survival.