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<p>That’s not necessarily a gender thing. I played two-hand-touch football at recess for years as a kid. If anything, the teachers were more concerned about my doing so than about the boys’ doing so. They figured the boys were hardier.</p>
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<p>But the extent to which they do so is not universal! You make it sound like colleges are a single entity that all have the same policies on this stuff. In reality, there’s probably nearly as many different policies as there are colleges.</p>