We have never studied the biology of sex outside our contemporary culture. I don’t reject science at all, on the contrary I am familiar with the science that states structural inequities have huge effects on outcomes.

If you move a player from one team to another based on their ability, you are ranking teams the way that secondary sports rank varsity and freshman teams. Do you not know what a varsity team is? 

You’re digging through to comment section and replying to comments that don’t have to do with you. And rather than counter any point I make you insult me. That is the definition of harassment. Again, it’s clear the subject is upsetting and threatening to you.

None of my comments have claimed there are no biological differences between men and women’s athletic abilities. It’s really telling that that is so many people’s reading of them.

Lol none of my comments have said anything about the sex spectrum, but if you want to discuss that, yes, according to biologists sex is a spectrum. Besides intersex people, it is not true that 99% of men fall on one side of a binary and 99% of women the other, literally no science supports that idea. If you are…

Dude, you’re so upset you’re digging through the comment section to harass me. This topic has you really worried, doesn’t it?

What does puberty in two years have to do with her parents pulling her out of the girl’s league in third grade and putting her in the boy’s league? Her parents clearly believe the boy’s team is the same as the varsity level.

Right so differences in access and practice time yield huge differences in athletic performance. 

“They have a minuscule effect” - that’s an assertion without basis.

A “level playing field” has never existed in reality, so I don’t know what evidence you’re referencing there.

A friend of mine’s son plays in a league for third grade boys. There’s one girl on his team because she was “too good” for the girl’s team. The idea that boy’s/men’s sports are about the top tier of human excellence and girl’s/women’s sports are for “fun” is very widespread.

It’s actually discussed with wonder that Phelps has some unusual physical traits that likely give him advantage. He apparently produces half as much lactic acid as typical athletes so can recover faster.

It’s pretty clear to me that, in addition to virulent transphobia, a big part of the opposition to trans girls and women competing in sports is that people are afraid the results may actually upend our presumptions about male/female differences.

Biological differences have never been measured on an even playing field. How much biological difference directly translates to strength differences has never been measured absent confounding cultural factors.

You do realize that having a hissy fit and whining “yOu’rE StUUpID aND FAT” doesn’t lend any legitimacy to your side of the argument and just demonstrates how much of it is based in emotion and male status threat?

These are such great points you’re making, you’re bringing a lot to the conversation. Not like, facts, but a whole lot of emotion.

“that they run faster” is not the same as “are capable of running faster”.

I’m not the one making any assumptions here. Men and women have never competed in sports under identical conditions. Thinking that current results are indicative of what results would look like under identical conditions is making, I think, outrageous assumptions.

I’m also confused why you’re using “teenage boys” as if they are physically very distinct from men. 17 year olds go to the Olympics and set records all the time. 

K, to what extent do you admit funding, the size of sports leagues, and cultural attitudes affect athletic performance? Do you think Americans are genetically superior in Olympic sports or do structural differences lead to their dominance? Are Americans genetically inferior in soccer or do cultural attitudes toward…