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To: EdnaMode
Allowing men to compete in women's sports is so progressive!

I've always found this comical. Men in women's sports means women lose. So all of this want for equality just means that men persevere? Law of unintended consequences?

7 posted on 12/26/2020 8:32:07 AM PST by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: rarestia
Personally, people identifying as this or that does not bother me too much. I'm more upset at stealing elections, taxation, and loss of liberty.

That said, data are data. Check out this excellent resource on male vs female sports outcomes. Here is the bottom line:

If you know sport, you know this beyond a reasonable doubt: there is an average 10-12% performance gap between elite males and elite females. The gap is smaller between elite females and non-elite males, but it’s still insurmountable and that’s ultimately what matters. Translating these statistics into real world results, we see, for example, that:

Just in the single year 2017, Olympic, World, and U.S. Champion Tori Bowie's 100 meters lifetime best of 10.78 was beaten 15,000 times by men and boys. (Yes, that’s the right number of zeros.)

The same is true of Olympic, World, and U.S. Champion Allyson Felix’s 400 meters lifetime best of 49.26. Just in the single year 2017, men and boys around the world outperformed her more than 15,000 times.

This differential isn’t the result of boys and men having a male identity, more resources, better training, or superior discipline. It’s because they have an androgenized body.

The results make clear that sex determines win share. Female athletes – here defined as athletes with ovaries instead of testes and testosterone (T) levels capable of being produced by the female non-androgenized body – are not competitive for the win against males—here defined as athletes with testes and T levels in the male range. The lowest end of the male range is three times higher than the highest end of the female range. Consistent with females’ far lower T levels, the female range is also very narrow, while the male range is broad.

55 posted on 12/26/2020 8:57:13 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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