[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Well yes... those are the women who are likely to excell and be at the top of women's sports. The whole point (and problem) is that even those women can't compete against male-bodied people.



Could they absolutely thrash the average bloke on the street? Yes. But against an averagely-skilled male bodied person who has put in practice and training ... no. They'd need to train 3x as hard to do half as well. That's the simple biological reality.

To put it in perspective, my brother is 41 years old, he took up running around 2 years ago, just completed his first marathon a couple of weeks ago. He told me going by his times in races he's done if he ran against the female competitors he'd be consistently a top 3 finisher. His time in the marathon placed him 296th against the men