This Has to Stop | "Biological" Men Playing Women Sports.

now we get to talk about a tweet that I

sent yesterday that I actually did quite

a well and the reason I'm talking about

it is because I think it's a

conversation that really is a society we

gotta start having and guess what I'ma

take the Reigns along with other people

who are also taking the Rands not saying

it's just me and make an opinion on this

now as you know opinions can be wrong

but at least it's good to have an

opinion and this is my take okay look at

my take so I tweeted this yesterday

if quote biological men keep playing in

women's sports then soon there will not

be any biological women left in

competitive Sports instead we'll be left

with biological Men playing men's sports

biological Men playing women's sports

and then I wrote so much for gender

equality now unfortunately this was

spawned by uh by a few different things

uh over some studies on what's going on

but also some uh some of the recent uh

dare I say uh uh uh you know

controversies that are happening here

for example is a piece where we saw that

a girls basketball team withdrew from

the state tournament they were involved

in to protest to protest against a

transgender player who who dominates

games and basically they say here that a

women's basketball team with withdrew

from the Vermont division a four state

tournament and protest to the fact that

a a transgender individual was playing a

biological male was playing against

women and uh and biological women I

suppose I should say uh and uh and they

write here allowing biological males to

participate in women's sports sets a bad

precedent for the future of women's

sports in general

and and they write down here that uh in

one game the individual blocked seven

shots that means seven shots typically

closer to the basket so a much more

likely to go in we're blocked by the guy

who was taller than every girl on the

floor and can jump higher and is likely

significantly stronger in what world is

this remotely Fair uh they write here

and and there are some comments here

about how this is why men's competition

records sprinting jumping weightlifting

dwarf women's uh there's talk about

safety concerns and and studies related

to this and I thought it was really

interesting because when when I talked

about it uh I tweeted uh about it and uh

and somebody replied and said oh well

you know uh transgender individuals have

been allowed in the Olympics you know

for for since 2004 somebody replied uh a

tweet replied me with that and I'm like

I don't know about that so what I did so

I did a little bit of digging to see

what we've got lot and first of all it's

it's worth noting that the percentage of

individuals that are identifying as LGBT

uh in this statistic here which which

would include you know sort of

potentially a boost in the trans

population has been going up

substantially over the past few years uh

in fact if you go back to 2014 you you

had closer to on average about maybe two

or three percent of Americans

identifying as LGBT uh and in 2022 we're

up to about 7.2 percent so you've had

this large increase uh in in

identification and possibly that's

because uh it's become more acceptable

right but I thought this was very

interesting

uh this history here in 2003 uh the

international Olympic Committee convened

an ad hoc committee to discuss the issue

of transgender athletes and what they

actually required that to be eligible

for participation in female or male

competitions

you would actually have to complete the

surgery to reassign your gender so in

other words not only do you have to go

through hormone therapy for two years

after you're like basically sexual

reassignment but like you you have to do

something uh really irreversible here

right like this is like you are full

committing and as a result you actually

didn't have a transgender person until

2018 uh 2008 in the Olympics in the

hammer throw 2012 you had the same

person uh and a biological male who

competed in a women's hammer throw ended

up placing fifth 2015 transgender male

qualified for uh a a world championship

here uh and uh essentially the uh they

also what did they say here they they

removed oh yeah here they they the

Olympic Committee typically asked for

the removal of the requirement of the

surgeries right because the surgery is

sort of gender reassignment surgery is

again pretty irreversible and pretty

pretty big deal here uh and uh it was

very interesting that you really only

had that discussion start an agreement

being made uh starting in about 2015. uh

and so those who transition from female

to male are eligible now to compete in

the mail category without the

reassignment that's essentially what

they've now aligned allowed at the

Olympics so in other words since 2003

yeah they've allowed trans individuals

in the Olympics but only if you went

through the whole surgery to reassign

your gender and it was only in 2015 at

the end of 2015 that they allowed

females to compete in male Sports

without the reassignment like the actual

surgery right but so far you still need

to have the surgery to actually compete

in the Olympics uh as as a trans

individual and so this is where a lot of

folks are suggesting hey like it's it's

not fair uh that trans individuals are

are able to play in women's sports

because basically you're potentially

going to just kill women sports and when

you look at studies on this uh which

there are plenty you quick Googles of

them will pull them up but what you find

is that people who go through sort of

the hormone replacement uh still have

statistically a a a 10 to 20 percent

Advantage uh over uh biological women as

as a biological male uh for for up to

two years of going through sort of

testosterone suppressant hormone

applications and so you really have uh a

a competitive Advantage for males for

certainly the first two years uh of uh

of essentially transitioning becoming

trans uh and uh and here it is it's

actually a guardian piece uh I actually

I believe I saved that right here let me

just show you the stat so you could see

it directly because the guardian did a

whole piece on this and uh and then it

gives us the exact sort of stats and

numbers on it here it is okay the

guardian so on screen here uh trans

women retain a 12 Edge in test two years

after transitioning ground breaking news

study on transgender athletes has found

trans women between obtain a 12

advantage in running tests even after

taking hormones for two years to

suppress testosterone uh and and so

there this is why the international

Olympic Committee uh suggests that trans

individuals may have an unfair

competitive Advantage the other thing

that is is deemed somewhat unfair by

some folks here is this idea that right

now if somebody becomes uh trans they

have to prove that they have less than

10 Nan Nano moles per liter of

testosterone however that's still

potentially as much as 10 times as high

as the biological female's testosterone

levels which range range between 0.12

and 1.79 nanomoles per liter and so over

here you have some more information on

the studies one thing that was very

interesting was that individuals who

hadn't started their transition trans

women that so men biological men who

became women performed 31 percent more

push-ups and 15 percent more sit-ups in

one minute on average than the

biological women and ran about 21

percent faster and it took a full two

years really for some of some of those

advantages to go away however there were

still some advantages that remained even

after two years now there are also some

studies suggesting that after two years

you start getting more alignment uh but

uh but yeah I mean this this is

something that I think society's really

got to look at and say you know is is

there potentially an argument to be made

that maybe there should just be a

different division entirely like maybe

you have biological men Sports

biological women's sports and then

transports right is is that potentially

uh where the future goes because I think

we Circle back over here when we look at

the data it's very difficult to argue uh

in my opinion that uh people who are in

biological man certainly any time before

two years uh and even after that you

still have advantages uh can fairly

compete with biological women so I'm

curious to see what uh what what

everybody else thinks about that but uh

but that's um you know just sort of some

of my thoughts and and some more detail

in terms of why I have those thoughts

you know I'm not here to always say hey

my opinion's right or it's perfect it's

just to say hey look I have an opinion

here's why I have the opinion uh and I'm

open to talking about it but but yeah

this uh this is one uh that's quite

interesting uh to me