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I don't believe puberty blockers would trigger the legal standard, as the Idaho guideline specifically uses the terms 'female-to-male transgender student athlete' and 'gender transition'. That said I am not a lawyer so that is not legal advice. If you go to transathlete.com and click on...

Points 2 and 3 are clear favoritism. Points 1 and 4 may simply be related to different abilities. It may be that these two girls are more advanced in a particular skill and therefore ready for upgrades the others aren’t. If they are more advanced in vault it may be appropriate for them to train...

Because you are biologically female, there should be no issues competing in women's sports. Some states now have laws preventing participation in sports under a gender different from one's birth certificate, but in this case you are trying to match the gender on your birth certificate so that...

That is very helpful. I had to watch the first one at 1/2 speed to really see the difference but the second one was pretty obvious. I will watch her next vault with me eye to different things now. I suppose you are right I shouldn't get involved. I don't want to be 'that mom'. I just hate...

Hi, my daughter is competing Xcel Bronze and started the season with a fairly good handstand flatback but as the season has worn on her performance and scores have regressed. She used to hit the handstand fine, with some piking of the legs, but nice strong arms and mostly straight fall. Now she...

They are adding an sapphire level to Xcel that is meant to be a path to college gymnastics. It's so new it's only offered in some areas but will probably be everywhere by the time your daughter is ready for it. At 14 I am assuming she is 8th or 9th grade. If she does Gold in 9th and...

Why are grips restricted at lower levels? Will they interfere with learning skills? Are they not allowed at completion for those levels? My daughter is a silver trainer (competing Bronze, training Silver) and recently asked me about buying grips because her hands hurt. I was planning on...

Why rent out a space and equipment? A gymnastics gym should already have those things. I have been to 3 meets, 1 was in a rented space, which seemed weird to me. The other two in the host gyms location. I don't know about the equipment for the rented space, I assume it came from the host gym...

My daughter is competing Bronze (training Silver) and we just had our first Friday session. Threw me for a loop. I was told this is more common at the lower levels because missing school is obviously more difficult once they have multiple classes like they do in middle and high school, but...

We have mandatory volunteer hours but you can opt out and pay a fee instead. We also have large assessment fees but they are not called coaching assessment fees so maybe that is something different. We pay 4 assessment fees a year that we were told these cover meet entry fees. The volunteer...

I'm not sure what the costs are but have you considered rhythmic gymnastics instead? It looks much easier on the joints and would let you compete a form of gymnastics. There are several rhythmic gymnastics gyms in my area. I don't think they are as widespread as artistic gymnastics gyms but...

It wouldn't cost anymore to stay in for bars only then for all events, so if you can afford to do it all events why not just bars? Platinum does allow event specialists and you should be able to negotiate a deal with your gym to attend only some of the platinum practices since you are doing...

Well I looked over the info online so I'm at least educated about that now. I guess I assumed the actual deductions would be marked somewhere, like the meet scores website or something. It just seems weird that the kids don't get that info. But she is quite happy with her score so doesn't...

I don't know about the higher ones (we're not there yet) but the A value seems to cover a very wide range of difficulty. It amazes me that a back walkover or back hip circle can be rated as no more difficult than a cartwheel. It took my daughter months of trying to be able to do those skills...

My daughter had her first competitive meet recently (Xcel Bronze). She did well (35.3) and I am proud if her, but was curious if there is any way to learn which deductions she had on each apparatus? She just got a number score for each.

I do get that there are differences in quality, and we have been burned by leos she didn't like the feel of as well. But their are definitely leos my daughter feels comfortable in all day that cost me $30-$40. We have had good luck with Danskin, they are cheap and machine washable and she...

The ones marked competition are outrageous, that company is clearly catering to people that have more money than sense. But it's not like they are the only brand out there. A quick google search allowed me to find a competition leotards with sleeves and rhinestones for $50 (see link below)...

My daughter is in Xcel Bronze and we had to pay $200 for leo and warm-ups, and I consider that a rip-off, but figured it's probably like that at most gyms so I didn't fight it or anything. I get why gymnastics is an expensive sport given the cost of the equipment but the leotard charges are...

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Thanks for all the perspectives. I definitely wasn't planning on staying and watching 100% of the time. 6 hours a week is far too much time for doing that. When she was in rec I watched about an hour a week and that felt like a pretty ideal amount of time to me. Enough to see how she is...