That was terrific.
I think the way that you all...
With the places that you took us, I think, um...
Because again, when you hear extracurricular,
it just seems like, oh, that's just fun,
a way for kids to, you know,
burn off some energy, but...
Obviously this has real impact not just now,
but tomorrow I'm moving forward,
so I really do appreciate all of your time.
And I hope you had a chance to,
uh, say what you wanted to say.
And Michelle, I'm sorry, because I had to pivot,
because I knew the time was coming up.
You know what, don't worry.
You're not allowed to use--
(Overlapping chatter)
I know, I know!
(Laughing)
Every time you say it...
Ding on the head.
I was interested in knowing those numbers,
because I ,um, I would be--
I would love to read that study, um, because I would--
He said-- You said 65 percent,
so I assume that 65 percent...
I would love to know the breakdown of it.
Yeah and, uh, George has my email and...
Michelle, if you email me,
I'll Zoom with you in a second
and give you all that data.
I'll just say quickly, Michelle,
we studied kids all the way from five years of age to 20,
and for females, the separation between
males and females starts at around age six,
because of the gender bias in society present in sport,
physical education, everywhere.
That lack of competence results in a
lack of confidence at age nine,
and then by age 13 the average Canadian female
associates unhappiness with movement,
as opposed to happiness.
That is a tragedy.
That is gender mistreatment, and very sad.
So, I just mentioned that to you...
But, you know, feel free to
email me and I'll share those papers.
(Overlapping chatter)
I had a question to ask you, too...
Um, because I read somewhere that, for girls,
if they're not in a team sport, um,
then when they get older
others things become their identity.
But if they're in sports,
that becomes their identity.
Yeah, the identity crisis is a major one
in the sense that we want a robust identity in children
that's not hinging on one sport alone,
but your identity is based on many capacities.
We've seen very big tragedies when people over
specialize in sport,
and then their identity is on one pinhead,
and then they lose that sport,
and then they go into an identity crisis.
So, creating, education creates a robust identity
by having you be able to participate in many things,
including team sport,
which then gives you a buffer from when certain
things go wrong and awry and bumps happen in your life
so you don't go into the identity crisis spiral.
So I think--
Which is similar to what Simone Biles
had probably went through,
which, now as you're talking about it,
I'm seeing that.
65-- I mean, I work with Olympic athletes a lot
and it is scary.
About 90% of them or more experience a
two to three year period after their last quadrennial
in the Olympics where they don't know who they are.
They go, "Who am I?" for two or three years.
If you magnify that, you know,
70% of people drop out of sport in teenage years...
If you think if their identity was
pigeonholed to one thing,
imagine the identity crises that are happening.
And this is rampant.
So education is a critical component to making
movement experience diverse,
kids can choose and move around from
activities throughout life,
not just one thing, but they have one and
a few others in their pocket.
And it is a tragedy for females worldwide.
There's no country that's fixed the female problem.
Even when they made, in Sweden, the law,
they have made the convention of the rights law
in January 1st 2020.
So if you violate the law and don't provide the
same opportunities for females,
there's a legal repercussion,
and I think there should be.
It's shameful in a way.
Well I, you know,
I think you've just planted the seeds for another discussion
that we will have on this show.
Thank you all so much.