Biological Males Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports: Change My Mind, Part One

In this edition of "Change My Mind," Steven Crowder heads to the University of North Texas to see what students think about biological males competing in women's sports. Spoiler: They should not.

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KEY DETAILS:

• In 2021, 31 states introduced bills banning biological males from girls’ sports. SOURCE: CNN
• TESTOSTERONE
  • Men have, on average, 15-20x more testosterone than women. SOURCES: MayoClinic, MayoClinic
  • Testosterone enhances red blood cell production, decreases fat, increases muscle, and increases bone density. SOURCES: MayoClinic, PubMed
• NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF PUBERTY BLOCKERS SOURCES: Mayo Clinic, St Louis Children’s Hospital, EJE
  • Decreased bone density
  • Stunted growth
  • Decreased strength
  • Fatigue
  • Sterility
  • Insomnia
  • Headaches
  • Muscle aches
  • Weight gain
  • Increased risk of cardiac disease
  • Increased risk of breast/uterine cancer
  • No way to resume puberty even after drugs are stopped
  • Alters brain development
  • AND these are the SAME drugs used to chemically castrate sex offenders. SOURCE: The Atlantic

MEN’S VS. WOMEN’S WORLD RECORDS

• MEN’S 1 MILE RUN: 3:43.13. SOURCES: GWR, GWR
  • Compare to WOMEN’S 1 MILE RUN: 4:12.33
• MEN’S 800 FREESTYLE SWIM: 7:32.12. SOURCES: SS, SS
  • Compare to WOMEN’S: 7:59.34
• MEN’S POWERLIFTING SQUAT (Raw+Wraps): 1102.3 pounds. SOURCES: OPL, OPL
  • Compare to WOMEN’S: 705.4 pounds

COMPARING % OF TRANS ATHLETES TO WINS

HIGH SCHOOL

• An estimated 2% of high schoolers are trans. And 60% of high schoolers are athletes. SOURCES: CDC, ChildTrends
• If this ratio holds, an estimated 1.2% of high school athletes are trans.

COMPARE TO WINS

• Lia Thomas recently WON the NCAA women’s swim championship in the 500-meter race. SOURCE: NYPost
  • She also broke records in both the 500- and 200-meter races, winning the 200 by 7 seconds. SOURCE: WashTimes
  • And in January, the NCAA updated its transgender participation policy: “Transgender student-athletes will need to document sport-specific testosterone levels beginning four weeks before their sport's championship selections." SOURCE: NCAA
• At the 2018 Connecticut State Track Championships, trans teen Terry Miller took first place in the 100- AND 200-meter dash races. That’s two out of three races Miller competed in--67%. SOURCE: MileSplitCT

PRO ATHLETES

• About 0.6% of the US population identifies as transgender (high estimate). SOURCE: UCLA
• COMPARE TO WINS/RECORDS: In 2019, trans powerlifter Mary Gregory won 9 out of 9 events and set 4 world records at the US 100% Raw Weightlifting Federation competition in the US. Note that Gregory was later stripped of these titles after a urine test led the committee to conclude Gregory was physiologically a male. SOURCES: YahooSport, GlobalNews

MOST EGREGIOUS EXAMPLES OF TRANS ATHLETES BEATING WOMEN/SETTING RECORDS

• LIA THOMAS: The University of Pennsylvania swimmer has broken a plethora of school and Ivy League records since moving from the men’s to the women’s team.
  • Thomas has the top times in the NCAA women’s 200- and 500-meter freestyle.
  • If she was competing in the men’s division she would have the 893rd best 200-meter time and the 501st best 500-meter time.
• LAUREL HUBBARD: New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard won two gold medals at the Pacific Games and was on track to dominate the sport until a serious injury. SOURCE: Wired
  • Hubbard made her Olympic debut in Tokyo at age 43, but failed to medal. SOURCE: NBCNews
  • And according to the International Olympic Committee’s guidelines, Laurel Hubbard only needs to demonstrate that her total testosterone level in serum has been below 288ng/dL for at least 12 months prior to her first competition. That’s 5 to 20 times more than the average woman. SOURCES: IOC, PubMed
• TERRY MILLER: Female Connecticut high school athletes are routinely cheated out of state track titles by Terry Miller & Andraya Yearwood, two biological males. Terry Miller won two state titles at the 2018 Connecticut state track championships. SOURCES: NYPost, NBC
• CECE TEFLER of Franklin Pierce University won the NCAA championship in the women’s 400-meter run. SOURCE: Outsports
• RACHEL MCKINNON, a biological male, won a women’s cycling world championship and set the world record. SOURCE: Bicycling.com
• HANNAH MOUNCEY, a biological male, was one of the Australian women’s handball team’s top scorers, after previously playing for the men’s team. SOURCE: Medium
• “MARY GREGORY” set the Masters world record for the squat, deadlift, AND bench press while competing as a woman, before being stripped of the records and screaming outrage. SOURCE: WaPo
• “JUNE” EASTWOOD, a University of Montana Cross Country runner, was named the NCAA Big Sky Conference Female Athlete of the Week. SOURCE: TheCollegeFix, RunnersWorld
• HAILEY DAVIDSON won a US professional golf tournament in May 2021. SOURCE: ScottishSunUk
• MAXINE BLYTHIN was the star of their cricket team in 2019. SOURCE: DailyMail
• KENZIE STATZ won a women’s cycling race by two minutes in January 2021. SOURCE: EmpowerWisconsin
• TIFFANY ABREU in January 2018 broke the Brazilian Volleyball tournament Superliga’s single-game scoring record by 39 points. SOURCE: VolleyMob
• VALENTINA PETRILLO won 3 gold medals in the 2020 Paralympics. SOURCE: BBC
• CHELSEA WOLFE is set to compete as a BMX Freestyle rider in the Olympics. SOURCE: ESPN
• JILLIAN BEARDEN couldn’t make it pro as a male cyclist but rode in a Pro US peloton as a woman. SOURCE: SummitDaily

MEN'S PHYSIOLOGICAL ADVANTAGES

• The sports performance gap between males and females emerges at puberty and is as high as 50%. SOURCE: PubMed
• AVERAGE TESTOSTERONE: Men have 15-20x more testosterone than women. SOURCES: MayoClinic, MayoClinic
• TESTOSTERONE (long-term) EFFECTS:
  • BONE DENSITY: Men have 26-45.5% higher bone mass than women. SOURCE: PubMed
  • RED BLOOD CELLS: higher count
  • LOWER FAT
  • MORE MUSCLE
  • MORE FAST TWITCH MUSCLES
  • 80% GREATER TENDON STRENGTH
  • LUNG CAPACITY/VO2MAX SOURCES: PubMed, NY Times, PubMed, PubMed