Thread by @Scienceofsport

Interesting thing about this argument (which tries to turn the desire to protect women’s sport into some kind of disparagement of women) is the irony that it’s only a CLEAR separation of the sexes that allows us to celebrate athletic achievements of women. It’s only when we (1/

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…blur the lines and try to deny biological realities that we invite direct comparisons between male and female performance (which, in a further irony, is the premise for the necessary separation!) that women’s sport is undermined. For instance, nobody should have an issue (2/)

…celebrating a Wimbledon title for Williams as equal to that or Federer, or the 100m gold to Thompson as equal to that of Bolt. They exist so distinct from one another that they carry the same weight, one is not lesser. So categories in fact PROTECT the merits of a performance

…from someone in a necessarily separate category. Just as nobody makes a daft comparison of a lightweight to a heavyweight boxer. Yet we do this in the name of identity and then some say “that’s sexist”. No, it’s sexist in the other direction to ignore biology.