A genius in Spain decided to let girls' and boys' junior (16 - 18 years) basketball teams join leagues in the name of equality. The result is exactly what you could expect. Total catastrophe. Reigning girls' champions just lost 50 - 4 to a boys' team.https://www.levante-emv.com/deportes/2019/03/12/contrario-igualdad/1846912.html …
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Then why even bother to have different divisions based on “gender”? Let everyone play in one league if someone will always have an advantage/disadvantage.
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Are you proposing that? No one else is. Irrelevant unless that is your new cause.
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Okay, got it...good! However, I think it's an error (qual and quantitatively) to equate the difference between LeBron and his average competitor to that between a trans-female and her average competitor. For various reasons, the differences between the latter are FAR larger...so
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I think the bottom line is that there must be a limit to "unfair advantage" in sports - which is why in fighting sports there are weight classes, or why doping is illegal. As far as i can see Scott believes those limits stretches farther than most people would like to.
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Lebron's team beats opponent teams 105-100, not 50-4, so nope.
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Same if you add a transgender athlete to any team. More winning but not guaranteed.
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