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The logical outcome of this line of thinking is that since people have natural advantages we should allow all advantages. And if that happened then women would pretty much never win in any sport. Serena williams would have been ranked 400 in the world. The best womans football team would be beaten by the under 16s Cambridge 11.

Small men would never win at boxing, either. A woman would never beat a boxer who was male at the same weight class, unless the relative skill levels were off. in every single respect women are weaker than men other than mental capacity. This is accepted scientific fact and not sexist in the slightest.

Talking about boxing, the weight classes are approximately 7 pounds per class. There is a reason for this - it's because weight is an amalgamation of overall advantage - yes, sometimes people cross weight boundaries, but you will never get an 11 stone fighter who is good beating a 14 stone fighter that is good. Weight sums up reach, power, height etc. It doesn't happen.

There has to be some sort of boundaries - whether weight or whatever. A good one, historically, seems to be if you are male or female. Easy to sum up, easy to sanction. Maybe we could come up with a more complex one - maybe a woman who is 30 pounds heavier than a man should be classified in the same class perhaps? I don't know. But a good rule of thumb has been, in most sports, if you are a woman you play against women. Because if you play against men, in really any sport at it's peak, where 99% of everyone has already been discarded, the 1% of men are miles ahead of the 1% of women. This shouldn't discredit women, it's just a biological fact. It's why we separate sports on biological grounds in the first place.

If this didn't happen then in reality we wouldn't really have women's sports. I dont think there is a single sport - either through biological advantage or through societal issues, where if in the same competition, women would win.

Even in Chess, the ultimate in non-physical advantage, the sexes are split. Because more women will play against other women, because they feel, overall, uncomfortable playing against men - not in the moment, but in the clubs, in the environment of chess clubs where men come onto women etc. The split is to encourage women to play.

Even in the non-physical sense there is a reason why the sexes are split. In the physical realm there really is no argument - if there was one open category in pretty much every sport ever, women would never be near the top.

It's for women these things are split and talking about advantages of height in basketball is missing the point, IMO

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