Stronger men have an advantage over stronger women. Period. This trans inclusion in female athletics is a necessary consequence of an incoherent social constructionist gender theory and it threatens to make a mockery of women's sports https://t.co/BlfmLb5axW
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) April 6, 2019
Yes, I know it’s Jordan Peterson, but in this case I agree with him 100%. It’s a travesty what’s being done to women’s sports.
There are important physiological differences between men and women. For instance, average women have only 37% of the upper body strength of average men.
There’s nothing any pseudo-feminist wishful thinking can do about that. That’s just a fact of life, as much as some people wish it weren’t.
Right now, weightlifting and other sports are being completely ruined by men dressed as women. I expect tennis will be next, and that’s when I will stop watching it.
Cynically, I think if I called myself Michaela and “became” a woman, I could probably compete at world-class level in women’s deadlifting events if I cut some weight and trained for a few years more. I could probably still do 400+ at 140 pounds if I was really strict on my diet and kept training. And then I’d win a lot of competitions.
That’s totally fair, right, because all it takes is wishful thinking to be a woman?