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This started with some (mostly Leftist) women claiming "There really aren't substantial differences, physical, or otherwise, between males and females, and any observable differences are merely cultural in nature." That argument was ostensibly made to get more females into construction, Police & Fire (Emergency Responder jobs), even Military combat positions, despite the fact that the vast majority couldn't meet the basic physical standards for those positions.
In court, they were able to get physical standards lowered, or eliminated primarily because the courts agreed that there were no appreciable differences between males and females, conveniently dismissing physical standards as "unnecessary barriers."
Eastwood's best 5,000-meter time in track and field is 14 minutes, 38.80 seconds, which is 32 seconds faster than the NCAA women’s track record of 15:01.70 set by former University of Colorado runner Jenny Simpson in 2009.
The runners online journal “Let’s Run” has noted that Eastwood’s personal best on the track in the 1,500 meters is 3:50.19 (equivalent to a 4:08.7 mile, VERY pedestrian among male milers). The NCAA women’s record for the 1,500, set by Simpson in 2009, is 3:59.90 is nearly 10 seconds slower than Eastwood's time!
In fact, Eastwood’s personal best for that distance is only a 0.12 seconds slower than the women's world record of 3:50.07 for the 1,500 set by Ethiopia's Genzebe Dedada in 2015.
According to NCAA policy, males who wish to compete in women’s sports as “transgender women” must suppress their testosterone levels for a full year before competing.
But it's been shown that such procedures do very little to counter the natural physical advantages bestowed upon adult men from having passed through male adolescence. During male adolescence, testosterone creates muscle bulk: adult male legs are appx 80% muscle, whereas female legs are only 60 percent muscle. On average, adult men have larger lungs and hearts than women, too, and their hips are narrower, another advantage in running.
Fair Play for Women, a group that fights to protect the rights of females in the UK, puts this in simple terms:
“Males have a well-known physical performance advantage over females. Put simply, male bodies are bigger, faster and stronger on average than female bodies,” the group explained on its website:
“Female sport gives women the opportunity to showcase the very best of what the female body can do. In mixed competition, women would simply never win and our best sportswomen would be unheard of.” (Finally someone has the BALLS to acknowledge the TRUTH...oddly enough, it's "Fair Play for Women.")
To eliminate this ridiculous scourge of males "identifying as female" destroying women's sports, the original physical standards for construction, the Emergency Services and the Armed Forces must be reinstated in acknowledging both the stark differences between the genders AND the necessity of such standards.
BOTH those things are part of the same issue.
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