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Originally Posted by Slava
I know what you're trying to argue here, but look at an athlete like Caster Semenya. She ran the 800m in something like 1:54, which for women is great. The men are running that around 1:45 (with the record being another 4-5 seconds faster still). Like it's not even close. And someone mentioned a similar discrepancy with regard to the 100m earlier as well. I read the piece you posted earlier that suggests there is no reason and maybe theoretically men and women are the same and should compete. But in reality there is there actual evidence of this being the case?
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That’s not the conclusion the piece I posted earlier makes, so I can’t really provide any evidence of it being true. From the article:
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There are true differences, though a great deal of variation, between women and men. These may, on average, give men an advantage in strength and power-based activities, and women an advantage in endurance sports.
Many of the differences we have learned are wrong, while the biologically meaningful differences are often understudied or ignored. That needs to change if we are to banish sexism in sport and take seriously the training and nutrition of female athletes the world over.
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It goes into a decent amount of detail on what those differences actually are and how they apply/give advantages in specific activities. The important part of that there is a ton of variation, so it’s not nearly as simple as men > women in sport, and simply classifying trans women as men and excluding them from women’s sport on that basis alone isn’t an evidence-based approach.
Semenya is an interesting example. What made you bring her up?