Ok. I got sucked in.
...Male bodies in general are better at most sports naturally.
... natural advantage.
The splits have made two distinctions between the two major genetic differences, Male or Female to allow two classes. If it was fully open we'd pretty much cease seeing women even competing in sports at any high level.
1. be very careful when you get home...
2.
are there differences in physiology? Sure,
But naturally better? I'd watch that.
Differences are:
biological/genetic/heredity
AND
environmental/social ?
We are now in a time when young women and men are not to be bound by old cultural norms. At least in our liberal part of the world.
At some point, perhaps actual
sex gender reassignment will not be necessary to feel "whole" - because it will be perfectly normal to live anywhere on the spectrum of traditional roles
without concern for birth gender.
now that young and gifted women are encouraged, and have role models, perhaps the gap at the pointy end will start to close.
For sports and all things. It is going to take time, maybe a couple generations? We see laws put in place to accelerate the closure of this gap.
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so as a guy, i accept another guy is better than me at something. maybe genetic, maybe environment, maybe a hundred other things. I'm good with that.
I also accept that there are women much better than me at just as many things for the same reasons.
the question does come down to, for a female competitor, is this one of the things they can accept?
i'm in no position to answer that -
do i think it is an unfair advantage? yes. (i just gave an opinion!)
do i think they shouldn't be allowed to compete at the elite level? i'll take the lame position, not my call. But am interested in how it evolves, and eventually resolves.