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“We’re seeing a linguistic sleight of hand in which what used to be called ‘protection’ is recast as ‘segregation’”, writes Sex Matters Advisory Group member Joan Smith @polblonde
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“No amount of support for girls’ and women’s sport can eliminate the fact that men are more muscular than women, while women are just over half as strong as men in their upper bodies and have about two-thirds as much strength in their lower bodies.”
“The obvious solution, which is to have women’s, men’s and open sports categories, is anathema to gender extremists because it doesn’t achieve the aim of eliminating single-sex spaces — sorry, I mean challenging the strict gender binary.”
#SexMatters in Sports:
Male athletes are taller, faster, stronger with bigger bones, longer limbs, wider hand spans, wider shoulders, a narrower pelvis, larger hearts and lungs.
Their larger & denser muscles have a higher proportion of fast twitch fibres.
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