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Originally Posted by ecriture d'adulte
That's not remotely true. The concept of regular physical activity being important is by far the best thing about ports.
This doesn't contradict what I said. But without fair play or a level playing field, sports don't exist. Who would compete in a rigged game?
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Originally Posted by ecriture d'adulte
As with IQ, height and most things there is an order of magnitude larger difference between individuals within the same group than the difference between average persons of any sufficiently large group.
If you believe that the curves of athletic ability for people born male and female overlap to a great extent, you are mistaken. Also, as has been said, we're not talking about the entire population, we're talking about people interested in participating in sports.
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Originally Posted by uke_master
There are massive gulfs in athletic ability among grade 9 kids in general, within either biological sex. Nobody suggests this is even the tiniest bit of a problem, the highly unequal nature of players is just completely accepted and embraced in sport. I’m not ignoring anything, but I don’t think most of the value in having kids play on a grade nine baseball team or whatever is upended if one of those team members is trans.
Why don't we just put everyone in one division then? No more boys or girls teams. The answer is obvious. Also, you've said many times some version of "it's only one kid". This is terrible reasoning.
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
Even if true, that wouldn’t really contradict his claim that “youth sports are broadly speaking helpful on a range of metrics to kids.”
Correct, it does not contradict that specific phrase if taken by itself. Have you been paying attention to what the topic is?
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Originally Posted by Elrazor
Hence why you can usually find hundreds of boys in high school who could beat the best woman ITW for pretty much any sporting event.
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
lol wut
I was a mediocre Division III sprinter. (For those that don't know, NCAA divisions are mostly, but not entirely, defined by the number of scholarships a school can offer. For Div III the number is zero. It generally makes the level of competition self-selecting.) The only time I would get on the track for 100m was if it was a dual or other small meet where we had unlimited entries (I was not on the team to run 100m, I was there to run 110HH.) In 1984, Florence Griffith Joyner smashed the women's world record for the 100m. Up til then, my best 100m time was faster than the women's world record. There have only been a handful of women in the years since to beat my best. 100s of high school boys every year are faster than I ever was.