Boys now 許すd to dance on Minnesota high school teams

By Jonathan Stempel

April 22 (Reuters) - An organization that 監督するs high school sports in Minnesota has 無効にするd its 支配する 妨げるing boys from joining their high schools' 競争の激しい dance teams.

The change 発表するd on Friday night by the Minnesota 明言する/公表する High School League followed a March 6 決定/判定勝ち(する) by the 8th U.S. 回路・連盟 法廷,裁判所 of 控訴,上告s in St. Paul, Minnesota 封鎖するing the 支配する's 施行.

概略で one-third of U.S. 明言する/公表するs 申し込む/申し出 競争の激しい dance as a high school sport, but Minnesota had been the last to 制限する it to girls.

In a 覚え書き to school activities directors and 地位,任命するd on its Facebook page, the league said the 解決/入植地 避けるs 長引いた litigation, and will 許す boys to join 競争の激しい dance teams beginning in the 2019-2020 school year.

The rescission is a victory for Dmitri Moua and Zachary Greenwald, それぞれ juniors at Roseville High School and Hopkins High School 近づく Minneapolis, who 告訴するd last July after 存在 閉めだした from their schools' dance teams.

In its 決定/判定勝ち(する), the 控訴,上告s 法廷,裁判所 had said the girls-only 支配する probably 侵害する/違反するd boys' 憲法の equal 保護 権利s.

The 法廷,裁判所 also 設立する no proof that the 支配する 演説(する)/住所d girls' historic underrepresentation in high school sports in Minnesota, where boys and girls now 参加する almost 平等に.

"We are 極端に pleased," Joshua Thompson, a lawyer from the 太平洋の 合法的な 創立/基礎 代表するing the boys, said on Monday. "This 事例/患者 has always been about giving all Minnesota students the 適切な時期 to dance." (報告(する)/憶測ing by Jonathan Stempel in New York Editing by Susan Thomas)

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