And it places every girl that has to compete against a biological male at a disadvantage so you are discriminating against 100 to placate 1. Biological males should compete against other biological males. Really not hard to grasp
That isn’t true.
The only way that statement works is if every female athlete is inferior to every male athlete, and that is obviously not true. Yes, there are average physical differences between males and females in many sports, especially after puberty, but “average advantage” is not the same thing as “every male is automatically better than every female.”
If that were true, then males would always finish ahead of females in every mixed competition, at every level, in every sport. They do not. Talent, training, age, size, skill, conditioning, coaching, access to resources, and the specific sport all matter.
This is why blanket statements are so weak. The data supports the idea that male and female categories exist because there are measurable average performance differences at elite levels, but it does not support the lazy claim that every male has an automatic advantage over every female in every situation. Reviews of sports performance generally find sex-based performance gaps after puberty, but the size of that gap varies significantly by sport and event.
And this conversation gets even more complicated when you include intersex athletes. Intersex people are born with sex characteristics — chromosomes, hormones, reproductive anatomy, or other traits — that do not fit neatly into typical male/female categories. So where exactly do they compete under your rigid view of sex and sports?
This is why the issue deserves more honesty and less political outrage. We can have serious conversations about fairness, safety, competitive categories, and sport-specific rules without pretending biology is simple or using “protect women” as a cover for treating some people as if they do not belong anywhere.
Even Utah Governor Spencer Cox, when vetoing a transgender sports ban, pointed out that the issue was being blown wildly out of proportion in his state: out of 75,000 high school athletes, there were four transgender students playing sports, and only one playing girls’ sports. His point was not that fairness does not matter. His point was that fear and anger were being aimed at a tiny number of kids.
So no, saying “every male has an advantage over every female” is not a serious argument. It is an oversimplification. Women are not automatically beneath men, and protecting women’s sports should not require pretending they are.
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