Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
Two boys won the Connecticut state track meet.\u00a0 The Girls track meet.\u00a0 It\u2019s \u201ccontroversial.\u201d\u00a0 It shouldn\u2019t be.<\/p>\n
A human being having two X chromosomes is biologically Female, while a human having one each X and Y is biologically Male.\u00a0 This is Sex, it\u2019s science, it\u2019s universally agreed to be true.<\/p>\n
Over the last 5,000 years, human civilizations developed acceptable roles for members of the sexes.\u00a0 Women raised children, men hunted and fought.\u00a0 These were Gender Roles.\u00a0 Until very recently, these were universally agreed to be sensible and appropriate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The biological difference in chromosomes results in physical differences in reproductive organs, musculature, and hormones, Male and Female sexes.\u00a0 Then societal difference results in differences in behavior, Masculine and Feminine. \u00a0Sex led to Gender but they are not identical and not interchangeable.\u00a0 An individual biologically Female human may reject playing with dolls (training to raise children) preferring to roughhouse with boys (training for war) but being a Tomboy doesn\u2019t change her from being a Girl.<\/p>\n
All human attributes are distributed on a bell-shaped curve so yes, some women are stronger than some men; but at the competitive end of the curve, women simply cannot physically compete against men.<\/p>\n
And everybody knows it.\u00a0 That\u2019s why there are two leagues, Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s.\u00a0 That\u2019s why Anika Sorenstam competing in the PGA was a publicity stunt.\u00a0 That\u2019s why John McEnroe was entirely correct to say Serena Williams is a great women\u2019s tennis player but wouldn\u2019t stand a chance against the top men\u2019s tennis<\/a> players.\u00a0 She wouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 You can see the difference for yourself \u2013 watch Boy\u2019s state championships in any sport, then watch the Girls\u2019 championships in the same sport.\u00a0 Boy champions are always stronger and faster than Girl champions.<\/p>\n
Boys claiming to be pre-operative transgender Girls have been winning athletic contests in the Girls division for the last few years, in Alaska in 2016<\/a>, in Connecticut last year<\/a>, and two of them came in first and second in Connecticut this year.<\/a>\u00a0 They are defended by LGBTQ activists who point out transgender people have hard lives because of societal expectations on dress, behavior and even bathroom use.\u00a0 Maybe so, but that doesn\u2019t address the biological advantage of being born Male but competing against Females.\u00a0 Defending against Biology using the defense of Societal Role is bait-and-switch.\u00a0 People who refuse to acknowledge biology are science deniers.<\/p>\n
If biological differences justify having two different leagues, then gender preference is irrelevant and those boys should go back to being losers in the Boys\u2019 State meet.\u00a0 Otherwise, if we let them compete against Girls, then there are no Girls\u2019 sports anymore, there are only Boys\u2019 sports \u2013 some won by boys who admit it, and some won by boys who pretend not to be.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I look for the quality of WNBA basketball to improve a\u00a0lot\u00a0<\/em>in about a decade…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Two boys won the Connecticut state track meet.\u00a0 The Girls track meet.\u00a0 It\u2019s \u201ccontroversial.\u201d\u00a0 It shouldn\u2019t be. A human being having two X chromosomes is biologically Female, while a human having one each X and Y is biologically Male.\u00a0 This is Sex, it\u2019s science, it\u2019s universally agreed to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-good-for-the-goose-is-good-for-the-gender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67155,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67154\/revisions\/67155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}