Or, if a rogue cycling promoter wanted to make some real money, they'd go full-inclusion in defiance of the BC decision.
There is a reason such divide exist in competitive sports. An open sports events where everyone competes together means that biological female would be excluded from wining,
Just factually untrue. Individual women win against individual men all the time, despite professional women's sports receiving far less funding and thus training budget and general support. It is harder to be a woman athlete, and less financially rewarding, yet they still sometimes outcompete... when they're
allowed to. This is actually why women's sports leagues were formed, because men couldn't handle occasionally losing to mere women.
as athletic performances clearly show that the best result female ever achieved in Olympics has been outperformed by hundreds and thousands of males tens of thousands of times.
The fallacy here is looking at record-setting individuals to make policy for general competition. By this logic, it's unfair for US swimmers to compete against any other swimmers because Michael Phelps is just that good.
With this in mind and current data suggesting that Trans female enjoy performance advantage,
Citation needed. Here's one that acknowledges some advantage:
https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-do-trans-athletes-have-an-advantage-in-elite-sport/a-58583988Trans women usually have insignificant athletic advantage over cis women, if any, after enough time on HRT. There's one exception: The
data suggests a permanent 10% advantage in running speed, likely due to height/bone size (after male puberty, which conservatives are forcing on trans girls).
Does that 10% justify excluding trans people from all sports, or rather height categories for track and cross-country competitions? Trick question: I don't think it justifies either. There are countless factors which are more significant.
For other sports any advantage is even less detectable. There are, in fact, physical advantages to being a woman. This is presumably why, despite incredibly dishonest rhetoric,
trans people are not dominating sports at any level. If the propaganda was true then we'd be snatching up gold medals by now. We're not.
what you suggest would at best be fad, since most female (who already get payed less than males) would not choose to participate, and trans community is too small to sustain such events. So fad slogans on its own wouldn't pave the way forward but further research to figure out what fields are comparable or come up with different classifications that would be fair for everyone.
The real issues facing women athletes in general are pretty important to me, as a feminist. Professional sports is designed to be resistant to change, for better or for worse, and I don't have a magic bullet to fix the deep iniquities in it.
The issue certainly isn't trans people. These "concerns" are nothing more than a cudgel used by paternalists to depict us as attacking their dainty weak women, which is all sorts of fucked up, and I'm sick to death of people peddling it.
I don't mean that personally, jipehog, as you're far from the only person who brings this issue up. I'm just completely exhausted with it. Which is EXACTLY its purpose. It's FUD, meant to keep people playing defense and radicalize credulous moderates.
I'd say I'd rather talk about the situation in Florida, or the heaps of new bills being proposed in my home state of NC, but I don't want to do that either. I just got home from three days of caring for my dad who, last night, opined that people who don't procreate are pointless and might as well die (and yeah, I'm fully out to him). This weekend I plan to love my partner, play some mindless video games, and do my level best to stay away from any alcohol because I know I'll go on a bender if I get the chance.
so sick of this sports bullshit. If people really care about sports then maybe THEY should fix them. I hate being expected to fix something I didn't break just because lying misogynists are accusing US of misogyny for trying to participate.
On the bright side I looked like crap a few days ago, after exercising (I'm sorry!! I know that's extremely political of me!!) and I got correctly gendered to my complete surprise. I really needed that.