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5/25/25  8:12 am
Commenter: David Richard Schwind

Women's Sports
 

As a husband, father, grandfather.  As one who has played organized sports in my youth, teens, high-school and college.  It confounds me how we, as a society, are even at this point.  That this is even a fieldable discussion.  Let me preface, for me this is not about hate.  This is not about religion and religious beliefs, though those are moral imperatives that should be considered, should be discussed otherwise you may be directly culpable.  This is not about the sciences of physiology or biology, though again these sciences have held, without question, that there are only 2 sexes.  There is a 0.018% population (statsforgender.org) that reflects those that meet the intersexual technical definition.  But even those who are truly intersexual cannot impregnate themselves.  They are either a biological man or biological woman.

 

At minimum common-sense dictates that for safety’s sake biological men do not compete in biological women’s physical sports.  For fairness’s sake biological men do not compete in biological women’s competitive sports.  Has society truly lost all understanding about safety and fairness, is this not a concern?  The Olympics and other organization use to test for steroids and hormones use to insure fairness and safety.  Lance Armstrong and others have had their crowns broken over these infractions.

 

Perhaps the most disturbing matter is having your daughter, your wife, forced to change, shower and dress in front of a biological man.  Or simply use the restroom with a biological man present. 

 

So, NO to biological men in women’s only sports from youth through the end of their days. 

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