Examples Of Competing In Women's Sports

Transgender Women Competing in Women's Sports

There are many examples of transgender athletes causing problems in elite sports. Transgender athletes are taking away opportunities from women who worked hard. One of the most controversial examples is Lia Thomas who swam competitively in the NCAA. The NCAA Policy on Transgender Student-Athlete Participation (2022)made new changes for the accommodation of transgender gender athletes. At the beginning of August, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) created a new policy on the participation of transgender athletes. The 2010 policy, states that all athletes who intend to participate in sports under the NCAA have to meet a few guidelines before competing. After receiving testosterone

These transgender women are robbing cisgender women of their amazing accomplishments. According to the Journal of sports science & Medicine (2010), the gender gap in sports has not changed since 1983. In the 100, 400, and 800-meter races women who won a gold medal in their division, did not even come close to finishing fast enough to qualify for the gold medal final if they were racing with men. In the 100-meter freestyle, the bronze winner for men would have beaten the women who won gold by over 4.5 seconds which is a lot of time for swimming. The gender gap in sports has been around for a very long time and is still affecting athletics. The gender gap in sports is the reason that women have their leagues separate from men's sports. In the 2010 Olympics, there are 3 races that women that won the gold medal are not even close to competing for the gold medal. This example is why there is a separate competition for women and men. In the swimming pool, men are finishing seconds faster than women in their races. In swimming and racing 5 seconds is a lot of time most of the time good races come down to a tenth of a second. Women work so hard to get faster but because of the physiological differences, they can't compete with men in these types of sports. In addition to men having an advantage in sports, there are now thoughts that hormonal therapy is helping even the playing field. The

Some of these examples are stronger bones, bigger lungs, and a heart, along with bigger muscle mass. Some people believe that competition between a man and a woman with the same natural qualities would arguably be fairer than competition between two women with different natural qualities. The article written by Dennis L. Weisman(2022) who is an emeritus Professor of Economics at Kansas State University analyses the performance factors of athletes: “This simple model reveals that the overarching issue in terms of fair competition is less about birth sex and more about controlling for N” (para. 16). N referring the athlete's natural endowment. This data showed the type of effects that an athlete's effort, natural endowment, and hormonal therapy have on the athletes. Although hormonal therapy can help balance out the fairness it will never balance out the natural endowment of the athlete making it the most controlling variable. Even though their evidence shows that competition between women and men can be fair when they share the same natural qualities. The word “natural endowment” is referring to heart size, muscle mass, lung capacity, and other physical parts of the body that can differ between people but also give athletes advantages in their sports.The Director of the Human Energetics Laboratory at Notre Dame, Cara Ocobock (2022), said in her article Sex In Sports she says that men generally