Guest post: Hormones do not negate
Originally a comment by Rev David Brindley on Give it all away.
Hormones do not negate the advantage conferred by longer levers, the reason that men can throw things further than women can.
Hormones do not negate the larger lungs and hearts that confer an advantage in any competition that requires stamina, eg distance running, field sports such as the various footballs and hockey.
Hormones do not negate the effect of muscle twitch, which along with longer levers, is why men punch so much harder than women.
And finally, hormones do not negate the sense of entitlement that appears in so many mid level males who will do anything to win, even if it means wearing lippie and a bra.
This post is really good. I agree. If hormone levels are going to be used as a way of dividing people into sporting classes, then current levels aren’t accurate enough; lifetime levels must be taken into account.
Oh, look! We already do that! Men, and women who have ever been doped with steroids like testosterone, have already been barred from women’s sport! See? We don’t need to ask intrusive questions about someone’s self-described ‘gender’! We can simply continue to exclude men and take blood and urine samples to ensure fairness!
I find it astonishing that people are tying themselves in knots to avoid admitting that humans come in two sexes, which need to be separate in sports if there’s to be any form of fairness; and yet still keep coming back to that fact via increasingly convoluted routes.
And, as you rightly point out, ‘fairness’ isn’t what the cheating men would ever accept anyway. Never mind winning, that’s just the cherry on the cake. Their dominance of women, and the women’s capitulation, is the point of their invasion. Hence the punishment of women and girls who refuse to compete against them. Getting a win without humiliating women and girls is like being told that they can have a cherry, but no cake.
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