January 3, 2024

It was once a commonsense belief and universal truth that men and women, boys and girls, are different, especially in the realm of athletics. With rare exceptions, men and women compete in their own categories, from high school level through college to the Olympic games and professional sports.

Mixed competitions place women and men on the same team, such as mixed doubles in tennis, or dancing, either in the ballroom, or on ice. Equestrian sports are an exception, but the fact that a horse is a major part of the sport reduces the sex difference between competitors.

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Based on strength and power, two major determinants of success for many sports, males have a clear advantage over females. For decades, this was not in dispute with rare exceptions, the most notable that of tennis player Renee Richards.

Richards is a kindred spirit of the author, not because “he” had sex change surgery to become a “she,” but because Richards was an ophthalmologist.

As a tennis player, Richards wanted to compete in the U.S. Open as a woman but was told ‘no.’ At least, until a New York State judge with a unique view of the law decided Richard could compete.

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Forty years later, former President Donald Trump is contending with the next generation of New York judges reinventing the law. Richards did compete in the U.S. Open but lost in the first round.

Interestingly Sports Illustrated, at the time, called Richards “an extraordinary spectacle.” Today Sports Illustrated has a man, identifying as a woman, as a cover model for their swimsuit edition. My, how things have changed.

Now we have tampon dispensers in men’s rooms and a surprisingly widespread belief (delusion) that men can become pregnant.

What was this shocking scientific discovery that men and women are different in sport? As published recently in BMJ Open Sports and Exercise Medicine, “Study shows sex could be a better predictor of sports performance than gender identity.”

Ya think? From the paper’s results, in scientific lingo, “Natal-male non-binary athletes outperform natal-female non-binary athletes at a confidence level of p=0.1%.”

In plain language, this means that as athletes, men outperform women. No kidding. It’s basic biology.