It's Time to Get Serious About Saving Girls' and Women's Sports
Every time a person born male takes a spot on a women's team, a female athlete loses. That's not fair. It also should not be legal.
When men can compete on women's sports teams and against women, women lose. Girls and women lose the races and competitions to people born boys and men. They lose scholarship opportunities, sponsorship dollars and the dignity of knowing your hard work, talent and discipline can pay off. And they lose the chance at a fair fight—a fair opportunity to show who is the best athlete in their category.
This is what's happening to women's swimming before our eyes with Lia Thomas. Thomas reports taking testosterone blockers, which would make a male swimmer less competitive on a male team. But even with that reduction of testosterone, Thomas is proving that it's impossible to remove the biological advantages of being born male and competing against females. There is an average 10-12 percent performance gap between elite males and elite females, and there is no drug which can undo the physical advantages of being born a man.
Read more here: https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-get-serious-about-saving-girls-womens-sports-opinion-1689217