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Can Men And Women Compete Athletically? Here’s What The Science Says.
Daily Wire ^ | Feb 18, 2021 | Paul Mosimann

Posted on 03/04/2021 8:12:32 AM PST by upchuck

The debate over competition of transgender individuals in sports with persons of their opposite, biological “assigned” sex at birth has been gaining traction over the past few years, but particularly since President Biden’s executive order allowing transgender individuals to play on sports teams of their choosing.

While the notion of substantial physical differences between biological men and biological women is obvious to most, a deep physiological analysis can further help us to better understand the differences between the sexes and, therefore, how forcing the two sexes to physically compete can be harmful, particularly to women.

It is a scientific fact that humans, like all other mammals, have one male and one female parent. The result of mammalian mating produces offspring that are either male or female. There are no other sexes or genders.

There is also no denying the fact that males and females have unchangeable and distinct physical and psychological characteristics.

One such distinction is the structure of their skeletal systems. While it is commonly known that women generally have larger pelvic regions for birthing and men generally have more pronounced shapes in the jawline of the skull, the differences go deeper than that.

Sexual differences in bone structure emerge during adolescence. The development of one’s skeletal system is influenced primarily by the increase of hormones and, to a lesser extent, by nutritional intake. For males, the increase of testosterone and IGF-1 (insulin growth factor) causes rapid muscle mass and strength growth. For women, their increase in estrogen provides bone minerals and higher increase in bone mass in relation to muscle mass.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: femalesports; homosexualagenda; transathletes; transgender; xyxx
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To: upchuck
Well.. then WHY not sign WOMEN to multi-million dollar NFL, NBA, NHL, etc. Sports Contracts? /s


61 posted on 03/04/2021 12:04:26 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: mewzilla
I know women who, in the right men’s sport, could compete successfully against a lot of men.

True. For example, when I was 15, and had played tennis a few years, the 30-year-old wife of one of our neighbors could beat me consistently. But the matches were always close.

That very pleasant, capable woman soon became our County Women's Champion. Meanwhile, in the Men's draw of the same tournament, I was eliminated in the first round 0-6, 2-6. If we take that County tournament as a predictor, she would not have stood a chance against the Men's champion.

But of course at the higher levels, competitors don't play against each other just because their houses are close. In fact, they will fly all over the world for match-ups with the best players in their categories. How significant are sex differences in tennis prowess at the highest levels?

Analyzing the effects on match scores of things like strength, reflexes, foot speed, endurance, and aggressiveness, plus the evidence provided by mixed-doubles matches, the consensus among tennis coaches is that there's virtually no way the best female tennis player in the world could do better against the 100th-ranked US college player than 0-6, 0-6, 0-6. They say the gap sis too wide to predict a different result.

62 posted on 03/04/2021 12:54:25 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: precisionshootist

With the sports roots in baseball and football, how does Biden go along with a system that sabotages sports for women? He must be controlled by some powerful forces pulling his strings.


63 posted on 03/04/2021 12:57:11 PM PST by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Why, and how, could you care less?


64 posted on 03/04/2021 1:15:17 PM PST by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: upchuck

Still haven’t heard how collegiate scholarships will be handled. Let’s take tennis, golf, volleyball, softball etc. So a coach has the option to recruit a “pretend” female decent athlete, who would probably not have gotten a scholarship in male sports, OR a tough, female athlete who had a stellar High School record and accomplishments. Which one will get the scholarship, knowing full well, his team will be competing against other pretend females?


65 posted on 03/04/2021 1:25:29 PM PST by Toespi
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To: bk1000

Seen here on Free Republic: “Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing’’.


66 posted on 03/04/2021 1:27:37 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: upchuck

There is no such thing as changing your gender. If you were born a man, you will die a man, no matter how much surgical manipulation and hormone therapy you undergo. The same is true of a person born a female. You cannot change that! Sorry!


67 posted on 03/04/2021 1:53:09 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: mewzilla

I dealt with Olympic-level gymnasts......

As good as the females were, still not the level of male gymnasts.....which is why they never compete against each other......

These were the best in the world......

The top female Olympic soccer team lost to a High School men’s team and badly......

The very best women Olympic track atheletes’ times are beaten by some High School male track athletes......

Respectfully, you’re living a fantasy of what you would like it to be and not what it truly is.....


68 posted on 03/04/2021 2:17:34 PM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: trad_anglican

If blowing up the system is the objective, then in every high school with a Transgender wanting to play on the women’s teams, 20 high school lads should wake up one morning and say, “I think I want to be a girl today!” They should inform the Principal and the coaches, and try out for the girl’s teams that the Transgender is in.

When the powers that be question whether they are “really” feeling like girls, they boys should answer …”Who are you to tell me what I am thinking?”.

That should blow up the system.


69 posted on 03/04/2021 5:35:09 PM PST by Mack the knife
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To: upchuck

Sure they can compete, but the guys will win every time.


70 posted on 03/04/2021 5:54:05 PM PST by Jolla
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